Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 9hOur book of the week this week is the "vivid, urgent and beautifully written" debut memoir NO LAND TO STAND ON by Mahmoud Khalil. You can get your copy from our bookshop now! shorturl.at/bR6hq 043
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10hICYMI: In issue 12 of The Key, @maryamalwan wrote about doxxing and biased hearings tied to her activism at Columbia, and why she's now suing the university. Read her piece, and more from The Key, for as little as $2 a month: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/columbia-s...thekeymagazine.comOPINION: Why I'm Suing Columbia University for Anti-Palestinian Discrimination“The more I protested, the more I mourned my people, the more I made myself a target both from the university and bad faith actors allowed on campus.” 011
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Four PalFest events are landing in London over the next few weeks, from Randa Abdel-Fattah to Ta-Nehisi Coates to Noura Erakat. See the full schedule and grab tickets now! palfest.org/full-schedulepalfest.orgPalFest Event Schedule — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureThe public events program of the Palestine Festival of Literature 084
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This fall brings a wave of new writing on Palestine, and we’ve rounded up 16 titles worth your attention, from Mahmoud Khalil’s prison diaries to Adam Rouhana’s debut photobook. Our list spans memoir, poetry, and political analysis. Read now, only on The Key.thekeymagazine.com16 New Books We're Excited About This FallWe're seeing an unprecedented number of new books on Palestine, politics, culture, and resistance. 084
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureSara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Key is also excited to share a round-up of some of the exciting books coming out this fall, including Mahmoud Khalil's debut memoir, previously untranslated writing from Ghassan Kanafani, stunning photography and poetry from Palestine and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/new-forthc...thekeymagazine.com16 New Books We're Excited About This FallWe're seeing an unprecedented number of new books on Palestine, politics, culture, and resistance. 0107
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureSara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In the latest edition of The Key, we have important reporting that shows similarities between what is happening in southern Lebanon today and the process of systemically erasing Palestinian villages during the Nakba www.thekeymagazine.com/p/south-leba...thekeymagazine.com“I Couldn't Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The MapIn a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say. 045
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026London! Join us Oct 3 as Randa Abdel-Fattah launches her novel "Discipline" at Ibraaz, in conversation with PalFest's Omar Robert Hamilton. Tickets are available now: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...palfest.orgColonial Sensitivities: Randa Abdel-Fattah in conversation — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureRanda Abdel-Fattah's Discipline is a searing critique of Western liberalism and its complicity with the enduring colonial violence of Zionism. We are proud to welcome Randa Abdel-Fattah to London to ... 032
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ICYMI from The Key: “I wonder if shame is any more or less useless than love” Hannah Black on moral collapse, the hollowing out of English, and her love of Ms. Rachel.thekeymagazine.comDesire to Be Known by a NameAn essay from the Refusing Complicity project 042
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“I want my body to remain whole, wrapped in a pristine white shroud, unmarred by the stain of red.” Mayar Nateel writes about her mother’s hands, marked by fear since 2014, and the ordinary death she now dreams of amid genocide in Gaza. Read now on The Key. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/gaza-genoc...thekeymagazine.comDiary from Gaza: “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”The road to Khan Yunis once passed through familiar streets and landmarks. Three years into the genocide, the journey is marked by destruction. 056
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW from The Key: In Southern Lebanon, villages leveled by Israeli bombardment are being erased twice: once by the strikes, and again by the removal of landmarks and records that proved anyone lived there. Zaynab Mayladan reports.thekeymagazine.com“I Couldn't Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The MapIn a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say. 045
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ICYMI from The Key: “Though I know I did not stop the genocide, I know that I did not accelerate it either. That is not nothing.” Ismail Ibrahim on boycott, quitting his media job, and what personal refusal actually achieves.thekeymagazine.comThe Difficulty of Nothing“Though I know I did not stop the genocide, I know that I did not accelerate it either. That is not nothing.” 0125
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ICYMI from The Key: “I wonder if shame is any more or less useless than love” Hannah Black on moral collapse, the hollowing out of English, and her love of Ms. Rachel.thekeymagazine.comDesire to Be Known by a NameAn essay from the Refusing Complicity project 042
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ICYMI: Adam HajYahia writes for The Key: “The lineage of the repressed, the tradition of the oppressed, is nothing but a series of ongoing attempts to enact unrealized disorders.”thekeymagazine.comThe Insistence of the ScarA response to Abdeljawad Omar's "The Failure to Crossover"; an essay from the Refusing Complicity project 023
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026London! Join us Oct 3 as Randa Abdel-Fattah launches her novel "Discipline" at Ibraaz, in conversation with PalFest's Omar Robert Hamilton. Tickets are available now: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...palfest.orgColonial Sensitivities: Randa Abdel-Fattah in conversation — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureRanda Abdel-Fattah's Discipline is a searing critique of Western liberalism and its complicity with the enduring colonial violence of Zionism. We are proud to welcome Randa Abdel-Fattah to London to ... 032
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If you haven’t checked out Refusing Complicity — a project where writers discuss boycott, solidarity, and cultural power — Yasmin El-Rifae’s introduction is the perfect place to start, free to read on The Key now. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/introducin...thekeymagazine.comRefusing ComplicityFive writers trace the networks of value that emerge through writing and solidarity, offering visions beyond complicity. 053
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ICYMI from The Key: Sophie Lewis on Sde Teiman, where the rape of Palestinian detainees is filmed, joked about, and defended from the floor of the Knesset www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...thekeymagazine.com“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of GenocideThe rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project. 074
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 03/09/202663 DAYS OF SIT-IN makes its London premiere at Theatro Technis on 4 & 5 September, presented as a complete evening of theatre, film, and conversation. www.shubbak.co.uk/63-days-of-s...shubbak.co.uk63 Days of Sit-In – News & Blog63 Days of Sit-In comes to Theatro Technis on 4 & 5 September, followed by the London premiere of its accompanying documentary film and a post-show conversation. 000
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026“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. 183
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026We'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...thekeymagazine.comHisham 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 083
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Tomorrow 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. 042
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 06/07/2026"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 062
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Back in stock: Watermelon Print Fundraiser palfest.org/shop 0124
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 20/06/2026A 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...theguardian.comYou may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey RobertsonThe 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 253
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Artists 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...thekeymagazine.com“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. 065
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18/06/2026We 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-...thekeymagazine.comPunishing Protest as TerrorismThe eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest 055
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We 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. 001
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Zeina 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... 0126
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Zeina 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... 0126
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Issue 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 068
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Issue 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 068
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 02/06/2026London, 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...palfest.orgYour Presence is a Danger to your Life - Book Launch - London — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureSamar 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... 0108
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 02/06/2026If you're in London, seriously: Yasmin El-Rifae, Samar Yazbek, Leri Price, & Sondos Sabra. Do not miss. 0910
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureAlex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026For @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.socialthekeymagazine.comHollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist" 17922
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Just 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...ibraaz.orgLiterature Against Erasure | IbraazSamar Yazbek, Sondos Sabra and Leri Price 042
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureAGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026On introducing Edward Said: Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar @palfest.bsky.social thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/on-introdu...thepalfestpodcast.podbean.comOn introducing Edward Said: Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar | The PalFest PodcastEdward Said needs no introductions, but what happens when writers are asked to newly introduce the works that helped define his legacy? In this episode Isabella Hammad, who writes the introduction to ... 001
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 02/06/2026London, 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...palfest.orgYour Presence is a Danger to your Life - Book Launch - London — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureSamar 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... 0108
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/06/2026@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 0247
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureFitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 19/05/2026 🇵🇸 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...fitzcarraldoeditions.comYour Presence is a Danger to Your Life | Fitzcarraldo EditionsIn 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... 0671
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/05/2026London, 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... 1174
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Tomorrow 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. 194
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Wednesday May 27th in London: Molly Crabapple in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum at the Southbank Centre. Tickets on sale now: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...palfest.orgHere Where We Live Is Our Country - Molly Crabapple & Hazem Jamjoum — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureThe 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... 01912
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/05/2026+ this video was made to go alongside the library's profile: www.youtube.com/shorts/cNkPZ...youtube.comGaza's Phoenix Library RisesYouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature 0118
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteraturePalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Gaza’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...thekeymagazine.comGaza’s Phoenix Library RisesOmar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them. 11513
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Gaza’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...thekeymagazine.comGaza’s Phoenix Library RisesOmar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them. 11513
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureSaoirse Flynn (The Revisionists Podcast) @revisionistspod.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Currently reading this and it’s excellent 031
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureIvor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This 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. 112
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 07/05/2026New 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...thekeymagazine.com“May Your Village Burn”: Inside Israel’s Wellness IndustryThe acclaimed author of Who Is Wellness For?, examines the phenomenon of a wellness culture seemingly at ease with genocide. 144
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 04/05/2026Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: generous, precise, powerful, present, just the ideal conversational partner & the BEST reader of her poetry. Yours to enjoy on @palfest.bsky.social podcast, recorded at @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk. Come for the poems, stay for us side-eyeing the BM...thepalfestpodcast.podbean.comSomething About Living: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with So Meyer | The PalFest PodcastOn this episode of the PalFest podcast, we mark the launch of the UK edition of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Something About Living, published by the 87 Press, at the London Review Bookshop. Lena Khalaf Tuff... 0105
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/05/2026LONDON: 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...palfest.orgHere Where We Live Is Our Country - Molly Crabapple & Hazem Jamjoum — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureThe 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... 073
Reposted by Palestine Festival of LiteratureInstitute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/05/2026🧵 Ibrahim Tuqan, the writer behind the ode Mawtini, passed away on this day in 1941, 85 years ago today. Widely regarded as a pioneering Palestinian poet of the twentieth century, Tuqan’s work captured the spirit of resistance and national identity. 193
