Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War by Miriam Cooke (editor) and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (editor)This anthology consists of journal entries, interviews, fiction, and poetry by twentieth-century Middle Eastern and South Asian women writers. Some of the works were written in English, but the majority were translated specifically for this anthology. It includes stories and poems about children, such as:
- In "After the storm" (English short story) by Attia Hosain (India, 1953), a little girl tries in vain to suppress her fragmented, tortured memories of violence and the disappearance of her mother and her protectress, through her everyday actions as a servant.
- In "Tears of joy" (Pushto short story) by Shukria Raad (Afghanistan, 1989), a boy who was orphaned during the Soviet occupa-tion of Afghanistan finds his mother.
- "Aboud's drawings" (Farsi short story) by Ghodsi Ghazinur (Iran, 1981) tells stories of children who lose their homes and their families due to war, children who remember their terrifying experiences, and children who cannot or will not remember.
- "The peace game (English poem) by Yasmine Gooneratne (Sri Landa, 1970s) describes children play at war.
- "Song of becoming" (Arabic poem) by Fadwa Tuqan (West Bank, Israel, 1969) describes stone-throwing children against Israeli military tanks in the 1980s.