“My message to all of you, without exception, is the message of a loving woman, striving for peace and safety, and hoping that justice and equality will be shared by all human beings everywhere.”
Palestine
Ashraf Fayadh Poem Read Before UN Human Rights Council
“We have of course, raised Fayadh’s case with this Council before, as we have been raising, like many, the cases of Raif Badawi, Waleed Abulkhair, Ali al-Nimr and others.”
PEN America: ‘Detention of Poet Dareen Tatour Signals Worrying Escalation in Israeli Repression’
“Her detention, one in a string of recent arrests of writers and journalists, signals a worrying expansion in Israeli law enforcement policy to silence views the government deems unsavory.”
On Larissa Sansour’s Fictional Futures: ‘Isn’t The Most Radical Activity Formed in Trauma?’
In The Future disrupts notions of history as static or stable, encouraging reflection on the “radical activity formed in trauma.”
Palestinian Writer Raji Bathish on the ‘Conscious Decision to Authoring Queer, Sexualized Texts’
“Do you think this queerness can enrich Palestinian culture?”
On Translation: Shadi Rohana on the Joys and Disasters of Spanish-Arabic Translation
“So what we eventually end up getting in Arabic is a mirror image of what the mainstream US and European publishers have deemed profitable and “successful” enough to merit translating into English.”
A Tour of the 2016 Palestine International Book Fair: In Words and Pictures
“Underscoring the continued problem was the marked absence of Palestinian writers and thinkers from Gaza, who though on the official program were not present at any of the week’s panels.”
PalFest Announces 2016 Authors, Event Schedule
“…South African-Australian Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, noted Syrian-Palestinian poet Ghayath Al Madhoun, architect-writer-scholar Mohamed Elshahed, Irish novelist Colum McCann, and many others…”
‘How Old Am I Now?’: Newly Translated Poem by Dareen Tatour, Under House Arrest for Poetry
“Treachery both orphaned and undressed me—”
The Poem for Which Dareen Tatour’s Under House Arrest: ‘Resist, My People, Resist Them’
“Resist, my rebellious people.”
Dareen Tatour: ‘I Will Not Leave My Country’
“They signed for me
And turned me into
A file, forgotten”
Rabai al-Madhoun’s ‘Destinies’ Wins 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“Al-Madhoun, whose 2010 novel The Lady of Tel Aviv was also shortlisted for the IPAF, builds on the themes and characters of that earlier novel with Destinies.”
