Introducing Fikra Magazine, ‘A Project by Palestinians and for Palestinians’
“Although we are a literary magazine, we are open to all art forms, especially those that experiment with and criticize the status quo.”
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Sunday Submissions: Soumou Magazine Palestine Issue
Soumou Magazine has opened calls for its Palestine issue. Palestinian creatives are called to submit their work by January 1, 2023.
Newly Translated Fiction: Emile Habibi’s ‘At Last the Almond Blossomed’
“Is this why you came to visit now?”
Don’t Miss: ‘Translating Palestine’
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine.
Radical Books Collective: Translating Palestine
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and […]
Sunday Submissions: Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology
Publisher Haymarket Books is calling for contemporary poems by Palestinian-identifying poets for a new anthology.
Reclaiming Palestinian Narratives in A Loveless World, with Susan Abulhawa
In this talk, novelist and human rights activist Susan Abulhawa will join with Alaa Tartir of Al-Shabaka, Aline Batarseh of Visualizing Palestine and Aimee Shalan of Makan, to discuss the history and context of the changing perceptions of the Palestinian struggle, what happens when the concept of ‘neutrality’ is disputed, why narrative shifts matter, and how — in an increasingly loveless world — they feed into the wider liberation movement.
Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha, in conversation with Mary Karr
The Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha.
A Poem for Land Day: Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”