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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 19/09/2026

The time to walk out and not come back was in 2015

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 11/09/2026

Friends in Germany, heads-up :)

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 10/09/2026

Raja Shehadeh talking to the BBC World Service about the preservation of his archive from destruction at the hands of Israeli forces in the West Bank (audio begins 35:13) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... image © Mariana Cook

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 10/09/2026

This is the kind of 💩 that fb serves up to me. The only honest thing about it is that these people have never even seen these places, let alone set foot in them in order to understand what they’re talking about

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 16/08/2026

I don’t generally go for the “look how awful these awful people are” style of posting, but this is such an abjectly disgraceful post for a reputable media company to publish that I only hope it bites them on the arse one day soon. Today would be good

Economist post: “These days many British Jews see Zack Polanski as a traitor to his origins…”

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 12/07/2026

You should all follow the Jerusalem Post because in the middle of everything it will suddenly come up with an unhinged bubble take like this that makes you blink

Text reads: Opinion: Sderot is becoming the global classroom for how a society under fire turns trauma into breakthrough…

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 04/07/2026

In Oct 2024 we launched DAYBREAK IN GAZA. Up to Dec 2025, thanks to @saqibooks.bsky.social, our book raised >$30,000 USD to be spent in Gaza by @medicalaidpal.bsky.social. It’s a tiny fraction of what is needed by those undergoing genocide. Profits from every sale continue to be donated to MAP

The four co-editors of the book Daybreak in Gaza sit together at a table during the book's launch in London in October 2024 - from left to right: Jayyab Abusafia, Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller, and Juliette Touma

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 28/05/2026

To have a personally dedicated and signed copy of FINDING ALADDIN delivered to you (or someone else!) on publication day, 12 November, the wonderful Lighthouse Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social can make all your wishes come true... Details here: lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781805...

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 17/05/2026

New book: FINDING ALADDIN celebrates a Syrian storyteller who was almost lost to history. Hanna Diab created Aladdin from the facts of his own life, only to be betrayed by those he trusted—and then erased from his own story. I'm overturning 300 years of injustice. Order now: linktr.ee/matthewteller

Finding Aladdin: the hidden history of a Syrian storyteller, new book by Matthew Teller, out November 2026

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 16/05/2026

When white supremacists are marching in London with this ↙️ banner, the Palestine activists marching a few streets away with this ↘️ banner shame our calls for justice and disgrace us all

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 10/05/2026

Embracing antisemites says one thing very clearly about the Board of Deputies. It is a right-wing organisation that consistently betrays the interests of British Jews as a whole and, as such, speaks for no one but itself

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 08/05/2026

Mimic fascists Alienate base Lose to fascists “We were right”

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 14/02/2026

I can’t take my kids to where current genocides are being enacted, so I took them here instead

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 03/01/2026

Dear mushy-headed liberal people 1- Trump is too stupid to know anything. Miller and the enablers aren’t, but they don’t care about infinite, they care about the next 5 years 2- Putin’s had 30 years and isn’t ashes or dust 3- That arc of the moral universe shit makes you feel good, right? 4- Act

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 29/12/2025

⬇️⬇️⬇️ A dignified, mature, thoughtful statement. Unlike those of the shadow ministers and others.

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 31/08/2025

By Adam Olearius. Within 15 years of writing this, "they" had become "we"...

They Drink, with their Tobacco, a certain black water, which they call Cahwa, made of a Fruit brought out of Egypt, and which is in colour like ordinary Wheat, and in taste like Turkish Wheat, and is of the bigness of a little Bean. They fry, or rather burn it in an Iron pan without any Liquor, beat it to powder, and boyling it with fair water, they make this Drink thereof, which hath as it were the tast of a burnt Crust, and is not pleasant to the Palate.
It hath a Cooling quality, and the Persians think it allays the Natural heat. Whence it comes, that they often drink of it, inasmuch as they would avoid the charge of having many Children, nay they are so far from dissembling the fear they have thereof, that some of them have come to our Physician for remedies of that kind. But he being a merry disposed Person, made answer that he would rather help them to get Children, than give them aught to prevent the getting of them. I say the Persians are persuaded this water is able absolutely to smother all Natural heat, and to take away the power of engendering; and to this purpose they tell a story of one of their Kings, named Sultan Mahomed Caswin, who Reigned in Persia before Tamerlane's

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 17/08/2025

Rarely been this excited to read a 24-page booklet…

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 09/08/2025

Coming up: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 11/05/2025

Artist & activist Shaden Qous explaining the history of her Afro-Palestinian community in the Old City of Jerusalem. I quoted her father Musa, who sadly died in Feb, in my 2022 book NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM. Israeli authorities unjustly arrested Shaden for incitement, charges are still pending

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 07/05/2025

Tel Aviv terminal 1 literally empty yesterday. Took me 9 minutes from kerbside to airside (I tick all their disgusting racial profiling boxes, unlike many). Houthi win

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 26/03/2025

Books change minds. Bookselling is not a crime. Supporting the Educational Bookshop and booksellers everywhere facing censorship, intimidation and violence. Image is free to use. Please copy and share.

Poster text: BOOKSELLING IS NOT A CRIME - celebrating the right to read in support of the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 17/03/2025

Two events for the book "Daybreak in Gaza"—profits to Medical Aid for Palestinians: ➡️ OXFORD LitFest: 1 Apr, 4pm ➡️ Sheldonian, OX1 3AZ ➡️ £8-15 ➡️ oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e... ➡️ STROUD: 3 Apr, 7pm ➡️ Stroud Hotel, GL5 3AP ➡️ £5-7 ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/daybreak-i... @saqibooks.bsky.social

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 22/02/2025

Today is #BooksellingIsNotACrime day, organised in support of Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop by 3 mighty but tiny publishers: @saqibooks.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social & @plutobooks.bsky.social. But where are Penguin Random House? Macmillan? HarperCollins? Why have they not pledged support?

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 22/02/2025

On 9 February, Israeli police arrested my friend and co-author Mahmoud Muna with his nephew Ahmad in their bookshop in Jerusalem. They were accused of disturbing public order—a malicious and fabricated charge. But booksellers are not criminals, and #BooksellingIsNotACrime

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 18/02/2025

I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

After much thought, and with great regret, I am resigning my membership of the SoA. When my friend and co-author - a writer, bookseller, publisher and cultural advocate - has his premises ransacked by police and is dragged away in handcuffs in front of his 11-year-old daughter, then dumped in a cell while police confiscate hundreds of books imported from global corporate and independent publishing houses on the absurd accusation of incitement, and my own trade union turns its back, I cannot let it stand.

This statement
https://societyofauthors.org/2025/02/13/a-statement-from-the-soa-board/
added insult to the injury. It omits mention of my friend’s name, his identity, his location, his bookshop, the identity of those arresting and abusing him and the facts of what took place. I would have hoped my trade union would have taken this opportunity to illuminate the evils of state censorship and defend those who seek to practise freedom. Instead, it obscured understanding of the issues with platitudes and irrelevant assertions. It was an abject failure.

The police were Israeli. The location was Jerusalem. The writer and bookseller they abused is named Mahmoud Muna. He was arrested with his relative Ahmad Muna. They are Palestinian. The bookshop is not a nameless, generic institution: it is a business that trades under the name of The Educational Bookshop. I have no idea why my trade union chose, under these circumstances, to make erroneous claims as to the nature of the democracy prevailing within the country that sent armed police to jail a bookseller, but my suspicion is it may have formed a cack-handed attempt to exculpate the oppressors.

Either way, my patience has run out. I am cancelling my direct debit today, until such time as the SoA finds its backbone and starts standing up for me and writers like me.

With regret, in fury
Matthew Teller

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 18/02/2025

Joanna Hodgkin writes about when her mother Nancy Myers—first wife of Lawrence Durrell—lived and worked in Gaza in 1944: joannahodgkin.com/a-different-...

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 15/02/2025

London, 2 March. Book now. It's going to be quite an event actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 15/02/2025

Freezing rain in small-town Leamington Spa today

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 11/02/2025

Ahmad Muna was released earlier today, and Mahmoud Muna in the last hour - both under house arrest and other restrictive conditions, though the charges against them are obviously fabricated. Even the Israeli judge recognised that the police have no case. When will our complicit governments act?

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 10/02/2025

My statement on the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna:

The Israeli authorities must release Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna immediately. There is no justification for their arrest or continued detention. The charges against them are fabricated and malicious, and the manner of their arrest – an undercover raid on a reputable bookselling business established more than forty years ago, followed by handcuffing and many hours of interrogation and detention – is reprehensible. This illegitimate act marks yet another escalation in the suppression by Israeli authorities of the rights and freedoms of the people of Jerusalem.

The world has seen the nature of regimes that arrest and imprison booksellers before. The fact that my government in the UK, among others, persists in supporting, defending, encouraging and arming such a regime continues to be a source of profound shock and dismay. The time is long past for Britain and the international community to reassess its backing for Israel, and to condition any future support on the active and immediate dismantling of structures of oppressive control.

I am proud to call Mahmoud and Ahmad friends. Both have been a source of strength and professional support to me, and Mahmoud and I have worked together, travelled together and shared a stage together before public audiences over many years. I have nothing but respect and admiration for the work they do in preserving, promoting and championing Palestinian literary culture in Jerusalem. Criminalising booksellers has no place in a democracy.

In solidarity with Mahmoud Muna, Ahmad Muna and their families and supporters, I call on the Israeli authorities to release them immediately.

Matthew Teller
10 February 2025, 14:00 UTC

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 09/02/2025

@drtermagant.bsky.social the mess they made, and the books that were returned (from Nir's tweet)

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 09/02/2025

We – Mahmoud and Ahmad's friends and colleagues in the UK – are in touch with the family. We have no further news. This is an entirely inexcusable and illegitimate act

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 26/01/2025

“Hurrah for the Blackshirts!”

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 21/01/2025

For at least 1000 years this part of the Red Sea has been called the Gulf of Aqaba. In 1949, Israel seized a few shacks on the beach near Aqaba known as Um Rashrash, called them Eilat and renamed the sea "Gulf of Eilat". The name exists only in Israel, and is not universal even there.

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 20/01/2025

Why “appears to”? Debate his intention if you want [to be an idiot] but why question the reality of the act? Come on, this is day 1, sharpen up

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 16/01/2025

I’ve been carrying this sticky note (titled “Things To Do!”) with me from screen to screen to screen the last 25 years. Time to clean house. Bye-bye sticky note

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 16/01/2025

"The end of the aggression does not mean the end of the pain." Dr Samah Jaber for Al-Quds, translated by the Britain Palestine Media Centre (www.britainpalestinemedia.com) alquds.com/ar/posts/148...

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