Fundraising Campaign: The Edward Said Libraries in Gaza
The new fundraising campaign, which seeks to raise $20,000 US, is not only to fund and support the library’s existing projects, but also to start new ones.
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‘Palestine Writes’ Coming as Digital Festival December 2-6
Tickets to the digital event begin at $10, and while the full program will be announced in November, the website promises events for children, panel discussions, music, workshops, poetry, cooking demonstrations, readings, and more.
Drones and Clones: Mapping Palestinian Sci Fi with Lindsey Moore
“I’m very interested in the manipulation of temporality — or rather, as I’ve suggested, time-space configuration — that we see in Palestinian SF across different media.”
Sunday Submissions: EBRD Literature Prize 2019
The first prize, worth €20,000, will be equally divided between the winning author and translator. Two runners-up and their translators will receive a prize of €1,000 each.
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Palestinian Literature and Film’
It’s popular to think that literature gives us a “window into the lives of others” and other similar cliches, but marginalized, stigmatized subjectivities such as the Palestinians’ aren’t a costume that we can try on and take off at our whim by opening and closing a book. The desire to better understand diverse Palestinian experiences through their literature is noble, the claim to authoritatively know Palestinians through it isn’t.
Ashraf Fayadh’s Death Sentence Repealed; New Ruling Sentences Poet to 8 Years, 800 Lashes
“The higher court reversed the previous death-sentence ruling and replaced it with eight years, eight hundred lashes, and public repentance. “
Words Without Borders Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue: Writers Respond
Authors Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and Chana Morgenstern responded yesterday to a piece that ran in Electronic Intifada, arguing that their series of literary dispatches violates the Palestinian boycott call.
Words Without Borders to Host Literary Blog Series from Palestine, Israel
WWB just announced a new blog series, hosted by MFA Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and PhD in Comp Lit Chana M., that promises to explore literature and cross-cultural dialogues […]
Suheir Hammad: On the Brink of… for Rachel Corrie
Suheir Hammad writes and performs her poetry in English (not Arabic), but some days, who cares about these distinctions?