The public events program of the Palestine Festival of Literature

Palestinians are speaking out more than ever, but the West’s determined refusal to listen to them still remains the norm. By Bhakti Shringarpure.

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.”…

9/11 exposed the darker undercurrents of American universities but the ongoing genocide of Palestinians has laid these bare. By Bhakti Shringarpure.

It’s been 18 months since Mohammed El-Kurd’s Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal was published (via Haymarket Books) to critical acclaim. Not only did...

Did Ed Sheeran really think this would go over well?

For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed and displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all, says author Ahdaf Soueif

Joe Sacco, prolific graphic artist, journalist, intellectual and a pioneer in comics journalism, sits down for a conversation on the Radical Futures podcast.

Joe Sacco, prolific graphic artist, journalist, intellectual and a pioneer in comics journalism, sits down for a conversation on the Radical Futures podcast.

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

On the things we lost and the things we still carry. By Bhakti Shringarpure

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

Featuring Aruni Kashyap, Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure.

The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him.

"The house murdered is also mass murder," writes Mahmoud Darwish. The poem lends us words as Israel burns through the 5000-year old city of Tyre in Lebanon. By Bhakti Shringarpure.

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

YouTube video by Radical Books Collective | WARSCAPES

Join our live book discussion on Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think by Ainehi Edoro. Moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure. About the book Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel’s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities. About the author Ainehi Edoro is a Nigerian literary scholar who focuses on African literature and digital culture. She is the founding editor of Brittle Paper, a leading platform for African literary culture, and faculty of English and African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Buy the book here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/forest-imaginaries/9780231565073/

This is a story about the day I met a Somali girl named Ifrah and she was very oppressed. By Bhakti Shringarpure.

Bhakti Shringarpure speaks with writer, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed about her book NO! The Art and Activism of Complaining for the Radical Futures podcast.

We may have forgotten Kony but a new novel by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek urges against forgetting the victims and survivors who bore the brunt of his cruelties in northern Uganda.

In 1993, Michael Jackson penned a song for Palestine. But it was never recorded. Sherry Zane asks why and explores the policing of Jackson's politics.

Bhakti Shringarpure and Madhuri Sastry debrief a year in cinema, and what it says about our cultural and political moment today.

From Gaza to ICE to Epstein, our children are not safe, and the horror is closer than ever before. By Bhakti Shringarpure.

Today, in the United States, the right to vote is more precarious and more contested than ever.

“Satire is dead.

A conversation with Harsha Walia, author of "Border and Rule" on the history of ICE, border imperialism, settler colonialism, and normalization of violence towards migrants.

Political scientist Geo Maher sits down for an in-depth conversation about the history of Venezuela, US interests in the region, and what the media gets wrong about Trump's fast unfolding disaster.

Watch now | There is very little to celebrate as we near the end of 2025; a year filled of brutalization, war, hatred and racism.

A conversation with writer Lama Obeid about on systematic attack on food, foodways and nutrition in Palestine that works alongside tactics of starvation and hunger.

A conversation with Ammiel Alcalay contextualizing the present moment as genocide continues in Palestine, as American universities unravel, and the grip of authoritarianism tightens worldwide.

Read Palestine week starts tomorrow, November 29th. As you engage with Palestine, keep Sudan in your hearts, minds and on your bookshelves as well.

The awards ceremony for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe — held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on November 18 — was an emotionally charged affair.