Here they are the words fluttering in the mind/ There’s a land in the mind with a heavenly name the words carry.
2020’s ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Selection: ‘The Book of Disappearance’
As in previous years, the official hashtag for the campaign is: #lap1book.
New in Translation, from ‘The Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye’
Ziad began to feel that there might be some truth in Sitti’s story after all. He pressed her to keep going. “And what happened next, Sitti?”
Update: 2020 PalFest Postponed Due to Coronavirus
As to the 2020 theme, "Palestine are the Global South," they plan to "roll over and develop further for 2021."
Born on This Day: 7 Poems by Fadwa Tuqan
"Do not fill postcards with memories/ Between my heart and the luxury of passion/ stretches a desert where ropes of fire/ blaze and smolder, where snakes/ coil and recoil, swallowing blossoms with poison and flame."
Friday Finds: Six Poems by Maya Abu Al Hayyat
In others, the narrator is the child-figure, or, in the case of the wonderfully satiric "Like a Domestic Animal," a house pet: "My demands are basic: / some patting over my head/ and clemency for my horrible daily deeds."
ALQ Contributor Ameer Hamad Takes Qattan Short-story Award, Co-Wins Poetry Prize
Each winner takes a $4,000 prize.
New Fiction in Translation: Excerpt from ‘Dragon of Bethlehem’
“A lizard? Shame on you. Of course, I mean, all due respect to the lizards. But I am not a lizard. I am a dragon.”
Recommended Read: ‘Palestine as Metaphor’
"I don't like to resemble these taxi drivers to whom passing journalists glean their quick impressions about the country they are visiting."
Myths of Motherhood and Exile in Huzama Habayeb’s ‘Velvet’
Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet, by contrast, is unafraid of its fullness: its gold jewelry, its fleshy abundance, its black velvet, and most of all, its melancholic and romantic lyrics, as sung by legendary Lebanese diva Fairouz.
‘Palestine Book Awards’ Gives First-ever Award in Translation Category
A total of 43 English-language books were entered in this year’s competition.
IndieGoGo: Support Independent Palestinian Theater
From the beginning, Khashabi chose to be an independent theater, which has meant refusing institutional Israeli financial support, as, organizers say, "we believe in the importance of an independent and free Palestinian cultural scene."
