Earlier this week, organizers announced the literary lineup of the fourth annual Palestine Festival of Literature, popularly known as PalFest.
The traveling festival is set to run from April 15-20, stopping at locations in Jerusalem, Nazareth, Jenin, Ramallah, and elsewhere.Continue Reading
Yesterday’s PalFest wrap-up in Al Jazeera, penned by Sousan Hammad, provides sharp criticism for this and other literary events in the region. Her main criticism is that core PalFest events—as at the big Abu Dhabi and Emirates lit festivals—take place in English. And at some PalFest events, unlike the EmiratiContinue Reading
Seven and a half minutes from the closing night.Continue Reading
PalFest wrapped up yesterday with a final event at the African Community Society in Jerusalem. I haven’t seen video or tweets about the event, but each participant was set to read “a passage that means something personal to them.” The one wrap-up article I did find was from NYTimes correspondentContinue Reading
In his Day 2 blog on the PalFest website, author William Sutcliffe writes about his reading, given in a Turkish bath, and about what being in Palestine has taught him about humor: As a writer who has spent most of my career pursuing comic fiction, worrying away at the nexusContinue Reading
According to the PalFest Facebook group, “The PalFest group was detained for six hours at the border. But now they’re through and the show will begin!” And indeed it did. PalFest posted dozens of photos from Day One; these included time on the bus, landscape shots, and photos of theContinue Reading
The Palestinian Festival of Literature kicks off May 1 at the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem; it will continue through May 6, and makes its way through Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah. But PalFest is not an ordinary literary festival; this festival contends with checkpoints, soldiers, and shutdowns. AuthorsContinue Reading
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