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Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Oct 28, 2024
BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Dec 12, 2023
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Jan 10, 2024
Mohammed al-Qudwa is a young poet trying to get his family out of Gaza. He performed his poem, LONGING FOR HAIFA, at our last festival. Today, Mahershala Ali, reads it for you - asking everyone to click the link in our bio and contribute to Mohamed's GoFundMe. #FreePalestine
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Oct 3, 2024
In May 2023 the 12th edition of the Palestine Festival of Literature took place in cities across occupied Palestine. Here, three authors – Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maaza Mengiste and Eve Ewing - reflect on what they saw in Palestine. All interviews filmed in Palestine, May 2023.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Jan 12, 2024
In support of South Africa’s historic ICJ case against Israel major actors have come together to read the case file. Over the coming days we will present over 50 clauses of the comprehensive case South Africa lays out, charging Israel with genocide.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Aug 15, 2024
Viet Thanh Nguyen traces American empire from the Vietnam War to the genocide in Gaza and beyond: “You cannot separate the domestic politics of the United States – its inequities, its contradictions, its oppressions – from what the United States does outside of this country.”
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Aug 22, 2024
Poppy Liu (@poppyrepublic) criticizes the cowardice of artists who refuse to speak out about the genocidal war on Gaza: "The whole point of being an artist is to digest the world that we see, to use the mechanism of empathy, to reflect the world back from a space of bravery.”
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Jan 12, 2024
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Clause 3: On the obligations of State parties to the Genocide Convention.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Oct 30, 2023
One time only event coming up in NYC this Wednesday November 1st. Spread the word. See you there.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Feb 10, 2025
Mahmoud and Ahmed are key partners of ours in Jerusalem. We are outraged to learn that they were arrested in this ridiculous raid, which is an alarming escalation from the occupation.
Jon Lee Krohn
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Feb 9, 2025
Israeli forces just raided two of the three locations of the iconic Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, confiscating books and arresting Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna — part of the second and third generation of a legendary bookselling family. Literary workers around the world, amplify.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Oct 29, 2024
Since launching 24 hours ago this has risen to a total of 4,500 writers and publishing professionals pledging to boycott all complicit Israeli institutions. Names are coming in faster than we can process them.
Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Oct 28, 2024
BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…
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Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Jan 13, 2024
Replying to @PalFest
ii) Causing Serious Bodily & Mental Harm to Palestinians in Gaza Clause 51: White phosphorous, agonizing injuries and no functioning hospitals.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
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Apr 8, 2024
Walid Daqqa, Palestinian poet and political prisoner, died yesterday in an Israeli prison. Last year at one of our events in Ramallah the director of the Sakakini Center, Hossam Ghosheh, read one of Daqqa's poems. Mohammed El-Kurd then read Dalia Taha’s English translation.
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Palestine Festival of Literature
@PalFest
Apr 29, 2024
We want to introduce you to some young poets in Gaza. Through the genocide, they have not stopped writing. Most have been made homeless. All want to escape. They need all of our help, so we want to tell you about them. 🧵
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