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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18h
"Let me relish in butchering this language. Let me destroy senses with it. This language destroyed me." In his first essay written in English, Yahya Ashour grapples with exile and a language he can't trust with his memories. Read now on The Key:
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The Violence of English
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our book of the week this week is Ghassan Kanafani's remarkable book-length essay PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE LITERATURE UNDER OCCUPATION, 1948-1968, translated into English for the first time by Tarif Khalidi.
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Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968
THE MOST IMPORTANT CRITICAL WORK OF THE RENOWNED PALESTINIAN AUTHORGhassan Kanafani’s remarkable extended essay Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968 is an unyielding act of…
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One night only: Noura Erakat and John Reynolds launch "Confronting Zionism" in London, in conversation with Rafeef Ziadah. Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m., Friends House.
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Noura Erakat: Confronting Zionism - UK Book Launch — The Palestine Festival of Literature
Join us for Noura Erakat’s only UK event for 2026. She will present her new book, Confronting Zionism, alongside the book's co-author John Reynolds, followed by a conversation with Rafeef Ziadah.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICYMI: In issue 12 of The Key, we published Mahmoud Darwish's essay against the false promises of Oslo, in its first English translation by Sinan Antoon. Read everything on The Key for as little as $2/month: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/mahmoud-da...
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Searching for the Normal in... the Abnormal
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Looking for a gift for a little reader? Our shop carries Arabic children's books from Palestine with the Tamer Institute for Community Education. Buy one or collect the whole set now. Subscribers to PalFest and The Key get 10% off.
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Children's Books from Palestine — The Palestine Festival of Literature
We’re really pleased to have partnered with Palestine’s Tamer Institute to bring you this selection of Palestinian children’s books in Arabic - with shipping available worldwide. We’ve chosen six titles, each by significant Palestinian authors, to launch this selection with: The Oil's Secre
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our 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
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICYMI: 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...
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OPINION: 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.”
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Four 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-schedule
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PalFest Event Schedule — The Palestine Festival of Literature
The public events program of the Palestine Festival of Literature
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This 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.
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16 New Books We're Excited About This Fall
We're seeing an unprecedented number of new books on Palestine, politics, culture, and resistance.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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...
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16 New Books We're Excited About This Fall
We're seeing an unprecedented number of new books on Palestine, politics, culture, and resistance.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 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...
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“I Couldn't Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The Map
In a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
London! 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...
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Colonial Sensitivities: Randa Abdel-Fattah in conversation — The Palestine Festival of Literature
Randa 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 ...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI 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.
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Desire to Be Known by a Name
An essay from the Refusing Complicity project
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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...
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Diary 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.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW 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.
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“I Couldn't Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The Map
In a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICYMI 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.
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The 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.”
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI 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.
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Desire to Be Known by a Name
An essay from the Refusing Complicity project
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI: 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.”
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The Insistence of the Scar
A response to Abdeljawad Omar's "The Failure to Crossover"; an essay from the Refusing Complicity project
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
London! 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...
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Colonial Sensitivities: Randa Abdel-Fattah in conversation — The Palestine Festival of Literature
Randa 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 ...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If 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...
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Refusing Complicity
Five writers trace the networks of value that emerge through writing and solidarity, offering visions beyond complicity.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICYMI 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...
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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The 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.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
63 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...
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63 Days of Sit-In – News & Blog
63 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.
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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.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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...
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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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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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.
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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
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Back in stock: Watermelon Print Fundraiser palfest.org/shop
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And you can read the full version on The Key here www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
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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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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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...
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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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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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...
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“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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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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-...
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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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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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...
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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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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you're in London, seriously: Yasmin El-Rifae, Samar Yazbek, Leri Price, & Sondos Sabra. Do not miss.
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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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
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Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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...
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Literature Against Erasure | Ibraaz
Samar Yazbek, Sondos Sabra and Leri Price
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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
On introducing Edward Said: Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar @palfest.bsky.social thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/on-introdu...
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On introducing Edward Said: Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar | The PalFest Podcast
Edward 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 ...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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...
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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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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
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Fitzcarraldo 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...
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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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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Read the Foreword to the book, about resisting Zionism's erasure, here: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/antizionis...
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Resisting Zionism’s Erasure: Molly Crabapple and the Jewish Bund
In 2015, we were honored to welcome Molly Crabapple to the Palestine Festival of Literature. Now, 11 years later, we are pleased to present her Foreword to her epic history of the internationalist, so...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
You can still sign up to the PalFest Bookshelf and receive a copy of the book + an exclusive artwork postcard designed by Molly for subscribers. Available to new subscribers until the end of May. www.palfest.org/bookshelf
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
As mentioned in the alt-text - pictured is the Rashad Shawa Cultural Centre, mentioned in the podcast, which has since been levelled by Israel.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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.
The Rashad Shawa Cultural Centre, which has since been levelled by Israel.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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...
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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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