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After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli occupation of Jerusalem has caused a great sadness among the Palestinians. As a matter of fact, Jerusalem, which is holy in Christianity and Judaism is sacred and important in Islam and for Muslims in that it hosts the Masjid al-Aqsa, the place where the Prophet ascended to the heavens. The grief, deep disappointment and fear experienced by the Palestinians over the occupation of the holy city, as well as their hopes for the future, have been the subject of many literary works since the 1970s.
Palestinian journalist and short story writer Akram Haniyya reflects the realities of life under occupation in his stories by using a poetic and symbolic language, by appealing to intertextuality and supernatural fictions. He reflects the feelings and thoughts of the Palestinians about Jerusalem and their homeland with an extraordinary fiction in his story titled “After the Siege a While Before the Sun” which was published in his first storybook The Last Ship… The Last Port in 1979. In this story, Haniyya reveals the feelings of the Palestinians about their homeland and their future, while focusing on four characters about what happened in the city after the sudden disappearance of the Dome of the Rock in the Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem.
In this study, Akram Haniyya, one of the remarkable writers of the Palestinian story, was introduced and his story titled “After the Siege a While Before the Sun” was examined. While questioning for what purpose the supernatural event was used in the story, whether the story was fantastic or not, and to what extent the events reflected the truth, what was the message that the author wanted to reveal was tried to be analyzed.