2020’s ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Selection: ‘The Book of Disappearance’
As in previous years, the official hashtag for the campaign is: #lap1book.
Search Results for: Suad Amiry
5 Reads: The DNA of Palestinian Political Comedy
Fools, cowards, separation walls, hate crimes, and romance: Palestinian Political Comedy.
Ahlam Bsharat’s ‘Code Name: Butterfly’ Chosen as 2018 Read for ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Project
The hashtag for the campaign is: #lap1book.
‘Pay No Heed’: Talks with Palestinian Writers
“After all, if I was looking for new stories, who better to turn to than the storytellers themselves?”
A Crowdsourced Thread on Palestinian Literature
“Who are some good Palestinian novelists/poets/essayists to read?”
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Palestinian Literature and Film’
It’s popular to think that literature gives us a “window into the lives of others” and other similar cliches, but marginalized, stigmatized subjectivities such as the Palestinians’ aren’t a costume that we can try on and take off at our whim by opening and closing a book. The desire to better understand diverse Palestinian experiences through their literature is noble, the claim to authoritatively know Palestinians through it isn’t.
Is Sayed Kashua the Funniest Living: A) Israeli-Palestinian or B) Palestinian-Israeli Author?
Whether you read Sayed Kashua’s new “Native: Dispatches from Israeli-Palestinian Life” or Sayed Kashua’s new “Native: Dispatches from Palestinian-Israeli Life” depends on whether you buy books printed in the US or the UK. But don’t worry, they’re both equally funny.
The First ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Read of 2016: Suad Amiry’s ‘Sharon and My Mother-in-Law’
“According to LAP’s Melissa Morrone, the project draws inspiration from “One Book, One Town” initiatives, where people in local communities come together to read and discuss a common book.”
February 2016 Global Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar
Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.
