Fady Joudah
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Fady Joudah
@FadyJoudah
Palestinian writer, poet, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize
Joined July 2023
- My withdrawal statement from the Edinburgh Literary Festival.
- In other words, this is the first Palestinian return within Palestine, in such numbers and insistence. It marks our memory into the future. From the river to the sea.
- Your arm fell off, pick it up and hit your enemy with it, there is no way out. And I fell next to you so pick me up and slam your foe with me, for you are now free, free, and free Darwish 1983
- As if letting Palestinians speak means anything at this point. As a Palestinian I do not need permission to speak. I need you to listen. The Wax in your ears has petrified your souls.
- I too had an interview slated to appear @GuernicaMag and pulled it out. The essay they published is humiliating to Palestinians in any time let alone during a genocide. An essay as if a dispatch from a colonial century ago. Oh how good you are to the natives.
- One of my childhood neighbors in Riyadh lost his aunt, her kids (his cousins), and their kids; eight people killed in Al Shifa massacre in which Israel says no civilians were killed. The lies. The complicity. The cowrdice. The psychosis. Incredible. His mother and mine ...
- Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."
- And they returned From the end of the long tunnel to their mirrors, they returned Mahmoud Darwish
- Israel has killed Shaymaa, Refaat Al-Areer's eldest daughter, to whom he had written "If I Must Die." Genocide works obsessively at all scales of extermination. Tornoto's public library that banned the poem a few days ago: Are you cmplicit? Who else? "Suddenly I."Breaking: We mourn with you the loss of Shaimaa, the eldest daughter of our dear friend Rafat Al-Araeer @itranslate123, and her husband, engineer Mohammed Abdel Aziz Siyam, along with their newborn baby, after their apartment near Al-Ramal Clinic in Gaza was targeted in an
- This is the essay I pulled from Guernica; thank you @newinquiry"...there is a solidarity whose horizon is assimilation, and there is a solidarity whose horizon is liberation...The former is hierarchical...The latter is citational. It names those it loves. " - @FadyJoudah thenewinquiry.com/when-it-takes-…
- Zadie Smith signed against genocide in UK with others; a turnaround after her puppet work for the new yorker attacking students on US campuses; the new yorker went on to award itself a pultizer & Zadie in restoration mode. What about U? What Palestinian face are U wearing today
