‘Our Loneliness’: A Poem by Hiba Abu Nada
Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist from Gaza. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Deadwon the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She […]
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Next Week: Palestine Festival of Literature’s ‘How Empires End’
Palestine Festival of Literature is organizing an event next Wednesday “to hear from crucial voices about the ongoing war on Gaza and what we can do to stop it.” The […]
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Announces 2023’s 7-book Shortlist
On December 1, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the 2023 shortlist for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Judged by Ros Schwartz, Tony Calderbank, Sarah […]
Palestinian Literature for Middle Grade and YA Readers: 14 Recommended Books
Earlier this month, we reviewed & recommended nine Palestinian picture books. This week, we’re recommending both middle grade novels (for ages 8-108) and young-adult novels (for ages 13-113). Another list […]
#ReadPalestine Week Starts Today, With Free Ebooks from ‘Publishers for Palestine’
NOVEMBER 29, 2023 — With more than 30 books in nine languages, publishers from around the world have come together to support an international #ReadPalestine week, starting today. During this week, participating publishers, […]
Two ‘Little Prose Texts’ by Abdallah Zrika
The following two “little” texts are translated from Abdallah Zrika’s Petites Proses published by L’Escampette in 1998. The author himself translated the texts from Arabic into French. The translations from […]
Palestinian Literature: Anti-Racist Approaches for English Teachers
Editor’s note: The anthology A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba, ed. Atef Alshaer, which Ali Al-Jamri recommends in this essay, is currently available free as an ebook […]
‘Not Just Passing’: A Poem by Hiba Abu Nada
Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, and educator. Her novel الأكسجين ليس للموتى (Oxygen is Not for the Dead) won second place in the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity […]
On Queer-positive Sonic Expression and Activism in Palestine: 10 Songs
By an ArabLit contributing writer The current crisis in Palestine is humanitarian. It’s not queer. Not feminist. It’s a crisis of more than 14,000 dead, more than 6,000 of them […]