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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵. Our September Book Club conversation is free online now – N.S. Nuseibeh shares Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman. Enjoy!

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Namesake by N.S. Nuseibeh | Hay Festival Book Club SEPTEMBER 2025

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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY! FICTION Charlotte Haley Elle Nash Donal McLaughlin Angela Sun Ore Dada @saccharinequeen.bsky.social Sumayya Usmani Katie Huttlestone NONFICTION Giselle Cory Tara McEvoy Miriam Guastalla NS Nuseibeh ART Natasha Russell VISUALS AND DESIGN Esther Clayton

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Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A really interesting and beautifully written collection of essays, which won this year’s Jhalak Prize. Simultaneously personal and intellectual, the author reflects on identity by comparing her modern Palestinian self with her ancestor who fought alongside the Prophet Muhammad. Moving. #books 💙📚💡

Namesake:
Reflections on a Warrior Woman
by N. S. Nuseibeh

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 09/10/2025

Winner of the Jhalak Prose Prize & The Guild of Food Writers Award, NAMESAKE offer a remarkable exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home, and paint a vivid picture of what courage looks like amidst interminable conflict ‘An essential read’ Guardian

A paperback copy of Namesake by N.S. Nuseibeh floating on top of a stack of books against a grey background

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 09/10/2025

Happy Publication day! PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Re-upping this post...because @nswriting.bsky.social has only gone and been shortlisted! Over the moon that even more readers will be introduced to her writing and, through her, to the legendary Nusayba bint Ka’ab al Khazrajia. #JhalakPrize2025

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 22/04/2025

The Jhalak Prize 2025 shortlists have been revealed, with prize founder Sunny Singh praising the shortlisted books as “exquisitely crafted, stunning works of literature full of love, hope and joy.” 👇#BookSky

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Jhalak Prize 2025 shortlists revealed as founder hails work ‘full of love, hope and joy'

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 18/03/2025

Huge congratulations to the brilliant NS Nuseibeh, whose book Namesake has been longlisted for the #JhalakPrize25! Interweaving personal reflections on Palestinian identity, secular Islam and feminism, with tales of the author’s warrior ancestor Nusayba, it’s a vital read in difficult times.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Jhalak Prize longlists are out too:

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 14/02/2025

Can't believe it's a year since the incredible coming-together of so many indie bookstores, publishers, writers & readers. Can('t) believe & can't stand that there's still such risk for writers in & from Palestine. Donate, share this thread, read Palestinian writers & follow @englishpen.bsky.social

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Booksellers, writers, publishers, teachers, anyone in the world of books and education... please sign this open letter about what Israeli soldiers did at the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Educational Bookshop open letter

We are outraged at the raid by Israeli forces on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem and the arrests of Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna. Selling books is not a crime. The Israeli forces have chosen to attack...

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

ONCE MORE FOR THOSE AT THE BACK: BOYCOTTS WORK REFUSE GREENWASHING REFUSE TO LET YOUR BOOKS LAUNDER GENOCIDE AND ITS TECHNOLOGIES

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A selection of new stock titles in this 'festive' #bookpile 😍📚 From #Palestine to #empire, #feminism, #fiction to #Bollywood, there's truly something for everyone! We also offer a range of South Asian art and handmade craft, #unique gifts for special people!🎁💜 @shalimarbooks.bsky.social

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Authors, agents, publishers! Final week to submit books to #JhalakPrize25 awards: 1. Jhalak Prose Prize 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize 3. Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize Deadline: 13 December 2024 Send in those fabulous books!

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Authors, agents, publishers! We are accepting submissions for our #JhalakPrize25 awards:

1. Jhalak Prose Prize
2. Jhalak Poetry Prize
3. Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize

Deadline: 13 December 2024

Send us your fabulous books!

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 05/12/2024

Sorry let me be clear: what I mean is it's time for @societyofauthors.bsky.social to revise its silencing of its members and FINALLY make a statement against the genocide in Palestine & in support of Palestinian writers. Here's today's report from Amnesty for evidence. bsky.app/profile/amne...

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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

yesterday at @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social we shared space & read together for #ReadPalestineWeek here’s our reading list, some of which are free for download via P4P at the link below we left with an action of resistance & invite you to do the same 🍉 publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/29/f...

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SBWN Reading List #ReadPalestineWeek
Swipe for what we read in our sharing space this week
read & resist together

Why so few women on the street at night, Sarona Abuaker
The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan
Recognising the Stranger, Isabella Hammad
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hyek
[...], Fady Joudah
And most of all I would miss, Mira Mattar
Ash & Air, Nadine Murtaja (translated. Fatema Alhashemi)
Namesake, N.S. Nuseibeh
The Tiny Journalist, Naomi Shihab Nye
Writing the Camp, Yousif M Qasmiyeh
Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh
Forest of Noise, Mosab Abu Toha
Blood Orange, Yaffa

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#ReadPalestineWeek starts today. I’ll post some of my personal favourite reads here 🧵

Visual from Publishers for Palestine announcing Read Palestine Week from 29 Nov - 05 Dec, 2024 with action points:

Take Action - Organize events. Read in public. Amplify Palestinian voices. Be in the streets. Amplify BDS. Refuse complicity. Support a bail fund. Call out media. Take action to end genocide now.

Read - Visit the website publishersforpalestine.org for access to a week of free Palestine & Palestinian ebooks from around the world.

Print - Visit the website publishersforpalestine.org for access to our new free collection of writings by Palestinians in Gaza, And Still We Write.

Join - Events: from poetry readings to book discussions to a session on how to research Palestine.

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Throughout #ReadPalestineWeek, there are a selection of free ebooks available through the publishersforpalestine.org website, as well as events & actions you can take now.

Please visit publishersforpalestine.org for the complete list of free books.

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Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s #ReadPalestineWeek, folks. I’ve just started this, a new reissue of Edward Said’s seminal The Question of Palestine via @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. As Edward’s daughter Najla recently told @amkdurie.bsky.social in a LitHub i/view, readers on Palestine ought to go back to the source material👇

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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

join us at @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social for an hour of reading together online and sharing space during #ReadPalestineWeek 🇵🇸🖤 on 3rd december, we’ll read some of Publishers4Palestine free resources and books + other work register for our solidarity lunch hour here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A green graphic with the text: SBWN Solidarity Space #ReadPalestineWeek
3rd December, 2024
12pm to 1pm
online
read & resist together
open to everyone: Black people, people of colour, and white allies

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Farah Abdessamad @cosmofa.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

My latest book review for @middleeasteye on British-Palestinian author NS Nuseibeh and early Islam Nusayba, woman warrior and companion of the prophet. Palestinianness, Muslimhood, Arab feminism, and chosen ancestries. What’s in a name? www.middleeasteye.net/discover/nam...

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Namesake: Reflections on Nusaiba, a warrior woman of early Islam

In her collection of essays, NS Nuseibeh engages with the complexities of Palestinian and Muslim identities through the character of Nusayba bint Ka'ab, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad

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Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There's been a rash in people objecting to books about Palestine in our bookstore, so I put up a sign.

A sign hanging in Point Reyes Books that reads:

If you are thinking of turning this book over, or covering it up with another book, or hiding it somewhere in the bookstore because you don’t agree with its title or political implications, please ask yourself: has anyone who has attempted to suppress the exchange of ideas ever been on the right side of history? Would I possibly benefit from engaging with this text instead of hiding it when no one is watching? Feel free to disagree with the books, but do so on your social media feeds, not in our bookstore.

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Ms "I Want To Eat Your Brain" ugh, no, not YOURS, gross! 🤢 @brainmist.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

This one feels like a punch in the chest: Vinay Krishnan on the bird app.

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there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop

there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. (cont in comments)

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N.S. Nuseibeh @nswriting.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

My debut NAMESAKE is published today, but how can I celebrate a book about being Palestinian in the midst of a genocide against my people? Instead, I offer my preface, written in late October, just before the book went to print.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

The Dublin and Belfast Irish Writers for Palestine shows are now on the Irish Artists for Palestine YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNYN... Please consider donating here: www.justgiving.com/page/irish-w... @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social @taraflynnirl.bsky.social

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 22/01/2024

Great short fiction prize here which includes a retreat, manuscript assessment and 2000 euros. Get in!

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Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2024

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N.S. Nuseibeh @nswriting.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

This gorgeous essay by @therakha.bsky.social has articulated so much of what I've been struggling with. NAMESAKE is out next week but, as Youssef says, I'm having to "block out the fact that—even from a career standpoint—the powers that dominate my world want to kill me" www.guernicamag.com/i-ghost/

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Here it is! The 2023-2024 Galley Beggar Press short story prize longlist. You can get full details - and enjoy reading these wonderful stories on our website: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

The long list - details available on our website: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

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