On Abjjad’s Free Ebooks for Gaza
By Olivia Snaije In May, Gaza author and translator Anas Samhan tweeted a request, asking whether anyone knew people who worked at Abjjad, the Jordanian e-book app. People in Gaza […]
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‘Resistance and the Palestinian Folk Song’
This piece appeared in our Spring 2021 SONG issue. By Shaimaa Abulebda It was last year when a short video posted to Palestinian singer-songwriter Terez Sliman’s Facebook page went viral. […]
Three 2024 Collections of New Poetry with and from Gaza
Three new poetry collections gather work mostly written in the final months of 2023. Out now, from the Publishers for Palestine collective, is Poems for Palestine, a free booklet of […]
New Report Details Damage to Arts & Culture Across Gaza Strip
DECEMBER 7, 2023 — A November 7 report from the NGO “Heritage for Peace” estimated that more than 100 heritage sites had been destroyed in Gaza since the start of the […]
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 […]
In Focus: Poet Olivia Elias’s ‘Your Name, Palestine’
To mark the launch of Olivia Elias’s Your Name, Palestine last month, we share a conversation between the poet and her translators, Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Victor Robert; an excerpt from Your Name, […]
New Poetry in Translation: Ghassan Zaqtan’s ‘Everything Knows You Will Rise’
“Everything Knows You Will Rise” appeared on October 23, 2023, in al-Ayyaam. The art published with this poem is from the cover Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, tr. Fady Joudah. Everything Knows You Will […]
After Postponed Launch of Arabic Poetry Anthology in Berlin, Editor Pulls Back
On October 5 of this year, Ghayath Almadhoun says, Haus für Poesie Berlin organizers sent him an email. In it, they told the Palestinian-Syrian poet that they were pleased that several […]
Lit & Found: ‘Country of Words’ Podcast on Palestinian Literature
Earlier this week, the “PalREAD – Country of Words” project announced the launch of the debut episode of their new podcast.