“Do you see yourself as an intellectual?” Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar ask themselves and each other questions after writing introductions to Edward Said’s books. Listen on the last PalFest podcast of the season on Radio Al Hara tomorrow at noon, Palestine time.

We're honoured to publish Hisham Matar's new foreword to the upcoming re-issue of Edward Said's OUT OF PLACE, featuring some wonderful photographs shared with us by Mariam Said. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hisham-mat...

Hisham Matar's New Introduction to Edward Said's "Out Of Place"

An unreleased acclaimed Libyan-British writer's new foreword to "Out of Place" - Edwar

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Tomorrow at noon, Palestine time, on Radio Al Hara: Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad discuss their books – Haddad’s novel Floodlines and Baconi’s memoir Fire in Every Direction - with their questions of family, exile, return, and the possibilities of art. Reorded at Ibraaz for the PalFest Podcast.

"These should be shards that land, and that you have to deal with, and that lead you to more than just what I have written." Tomorrow at 12 Palestine time, tune in to Radio Al Hara for @lenakt.bsky.social at the UK edition launch of Something About Living, with the remarkable @suchmayer.bsky.social

Back in stock: Watermelon Print Fundraiser palfest.org/shop

A version of our story on the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest and the criminalization of the Elbit Four - by renowned lawyer Geoffrey Robertson - has today been reprinted in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson

The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

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Artists are refusing to be complicit with US empire and Israeli genocide, and it's redrawing the cultural geography of New York City. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/92ny-israe...

“We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience.” New York’s 92NY Loses Ginsberg Centennial After Authors Withdraw.

Artists are refusing to be complicit with US empire and Israeli genocide, and it's redrawing the city's cultural geography.

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We asked one of the most eminent human rights lawyers in the world, Geoffrey Robertson KC, to write about the sentencing of the "Elbit Four" as terrorists and the dangerous precedents being set by the Starmer government. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...

Punishing Protest as Terrorism

The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest

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We marked the publication of Ismail Khalidi’s SELECTED PLAYS with this special live event in New York recorded with the playwright and a selection of his special guests. Tune in to hear it on Radio Al Hara tomorrow at noon, Palestine time. You can also watch the full show on our YouTube channel.

Zeina Hashem Beck writes, in this stirring piece from Issue 007 of The Key, about how Israel's assault on Lebanon ripples across space and time. Read it here: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-hashe...

Zeina Hashem Beck writes, in this stirring piece from Issue 007 of The Key, about how Israel's assault on Lebanon ripples across space and time. Read it here: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-hashe...

Issue 007 of THE KEY is live now with: - A photo essay from Ahmed al-Bazz on the erasure of Palestine. - 2 new poems from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. - A profile of political prisoner, Umer Khalid. - Zena Hashem Beck on living through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar. www.thekeymagazine.com

Issue 007 of THE KEY is live now with: - A photo essay from Ahmed al-Bazz on the erasure of Palestine. - 2 new poems from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. - A profile of political prisoner, Umer Khalid. - Zena Hashem Beck on living through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar. www.thekeymagazine.com

London, join us on Thursday evening to mark the publication of two important new books: YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE & VOICES OF RESISTANCE 6pm at Ibraaz. Tickets are free but registration is required. www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

Your Presence is a Danger to your Life - Book Launch - London — The Palestine Festival of Literature

Samar Yazbek and Sondos Sabra join translator Leri Price and moderator Yasmin El-Rifae to discuss two powerful, painful new publications gathering first-hand testimonies of survival, loss, and resili...

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If you're in London, seriously: Yasmin El-Rifae, Samar Yazbek, Leri Price, & Sondos Sabra. Do not miss.

Palestine Festival of Literature@palfest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

London, join us on Thursday evening to mark the publication of two important new books: YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE & VOICES OF RESISTANCE 6pm at Ibraaz. Tickets are free but registration is required. www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

For @palfest.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about how the genocide in Gaza has hit Hollywood as a political and labor issue, with many unsure whether vanished opportunities reflect retaliation or simply an industry in free fall. With support from @economichardship.bsky.social

Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist

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Just saw news of this event in the latest @palfest.bsky.social newsletter (always a must-read). If you're in London, definitely try to get there. To see any one of these women on their own (Yasmin El-Rifae + Samar Yazbek + Leri Price + Sondos Sabra) would be amazing. ibraaz.org/whats-on/lit...

Literature Against Erasure | Ibraaz

Samar Yazbek, Sondos Sabra and Leri Price

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On introducing Edward Said: Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar @palfest.bsky.social thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/on-introdu...

London, join us on Thursday evening to mark the publication of two important new books: YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE & VOICES OF RESISTANCE 6pm at Ibraaz. Tickets are free but registration is required. www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

Your Presence is a Danger to your Life - Book Launch - London — The Palestine Festival of Literature

Samar Yazbek and Sondos Sabra join translator Leri Price and moderator Yasmin El-Rifae to discuss two powerful, painful new publications gathering first-hand testimonies of survival, loss, and resili...

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@mollycrabapple.bsky.social's popular history of the Jewish movement that fought European anti-Semitism and refused Zionism’s call to colonize and subjugate, insisting that Here Where We Live Is Our Country. We sat down with Molly and you can listen on Radio Al Hara tomorrow at noon Palestine time

🇵🇸 YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE: VOICES FROM GAZA by Samar Yazbek, tr. Leri Price, publishes this week Head to the link below to read an excerpt from the book and order a copy. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/your-p...

Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life | Fitzcarraldo Editions

In the year following 7 October 2023, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experiences of that day and the months of destruction and displacement that...

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London, join us on May 27th to hear from Molly Crabapple about her instant bestseller: HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY. For this London launch she will be in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum. Tickets available now: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

Tomorrow at noon Palestine time - The PalFest Podcast on Radio Al-Hara! A personal conversation between Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Farah Barqawi, two writers whose lives have been upended by the ongoing colonial assault in the region.

Wednesday May 27th in London: Molly Crabapple in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum at the Southbank Centre. Tickets on sale now: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

Here Where We Live Is Our Country - Molly Crabapple & Hazem Jamjoum — The Palestine Festival of Literature

The Jewish Labour Bund was a secular, socialist, revolutionary movement in Eastern Europe that was uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. Here Where We Live Is Our Country is Molly Crabapple’s epic, popul...

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+ this video was made to go alongside the library's profile: www.youtube.com/shorts/cNkPZ...

Gaza's Phoenix Library Rises

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature

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Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them. Read the full story on The Key: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-li...

Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises

Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them.

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Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them. Read the full story on The Key: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-li...

Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises

Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them.

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Currently reading this and it’s excellent

Palestine Festival of Literature@palfest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LONDON: Please join us at the Southbank Centre on May 27 for the UK launch of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY, a history of the Jewish Labour Bund and its resistance to Zionism. Molly will be in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum. www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

This is an important read. It's about "spiritual bypass" - the gap between the story we tell about ourselves and the person our actions reveal us to be. We lie to ourselves, self-justify, refuse to face up to what we have done. The first step towards facing up is acknowledgement of the lie.

Palestine Festival of Literature@palfest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on THE KEY “May Your Village Burn”: Inside Israel’s Wellness Industry Fariha Róisín, acclaimed author of WHO IS WELLNESS FOR?, examines the phenomenon of a wellness culture seemingly at ease with genocide. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-wel...

New on THE KEY “May Your Village Burn”: Inside Israel’s Wellness Industry Fariha Róisín, acclaimed author of WHO IS WELLNESS FOR?, examines the phenomenon of a wellness culture seemingly at ease with genocide. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-wel...

“May Your Village Burn”: Inside Israel’s Wellness Industry

The acclaimed author of Who Is Wellness For?, examines the phenomenon of a wellness culture seemingly at ease with genocide.

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