"We are excited to announce that Mahmoud Muna, the bookseller at the prestigious Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, will publish an anthology of short fiction by Palestinian writers in partnership with Granta."
‘Palestine Writes Back’: New US Festival of Palestinian Literature
"Palestine Writes Back will highlight the richness of Palestinian art for a North American audience who may not have had the opportunity to experience this work due to lack of linguistic access (limited translations of Arabic literature), the severe restrictions on movement of Palestinians, and the censorship and repression of Palestinian speech."
5 Reads: The DNA of Palestinian Political Comedy
Fools, cowards, separation walls, hate crimes, and romance: Palestinian Political Comedy.
Launching Today: ‘Palestine +100’
"Ze’ev puts me on display in front of the schoolkids in the playground for half an hour. None of them have ever seen a Palestinian before."
Palestine Book Awards Announce 2019 Shortlist
The twin aims of the award are to honor and celebrates books in English about Palestine and to "encourage authors and publishers to produce more books on Palestine."
Dareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime
"Yesterday's battle in Nazareth District Court was a victory for artistic expression but not for free speech, when charges against Dareen Tatour's poem "Resist, My People, Resist Them" were overturned, but those for her Facebook posts were upheld."
Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘The Book of Disappearance’
"Since I was born, Tel Aviv’s houses have been washed up in the city’s whiteness, or vice versa."
Translator Issa J. Boullata, 90
Palestinian literary scholar, author, educator, and translator Dr. Issa J Boullata died peacefully on May 1, 2019 at the age of 90.
Protecting Recollections in ‘The Memory Factory’
"Arab and Western readers are different in what they're cautious about in the book. Arabs have been anxious about how the book talks about the girl's sexual identity, alongside her social and political identity, while Westerners have been anxious about how war and suffering might affect young readers."
PalFest 2019 Re-focuses on ‘Urban Futures: Colonial Space Today’
It's now a two-year invitation "for those whose experience in Palestine catalyses new work or new collaborations that can then be presented at subsequent festivals."
Huzama Habayeb: Writing Place When Displaced
"The feeling of being in a temporary place, which I might lose, makes me work harder to control and conquer it."
Attack on Beloved Gazan Novelist Atef Abu Saif
Abu Saif is in reportedly in critical condition.
