Alaa's diary is an act of resistance. By Aayushi Rana What remains when everything vanishes?   A shadow?   A voice in the dark?   The echo of footsteps on stones that remember?   In Ibtisam Azem's   The Book of Disappearance , long listed for Booker Prize for Literature in 2025 , all Palestinians living in their original homeland occupied by Israel, vanish overnight .   Gone.   The streets of Jaffa in the West Bank  fall silent like after a storm has passed by.. Empty homes,