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Intellectuals / Palestine / Poetry readings / Translation

February 20, 2024

Reading Against Anti-Semitism

On Sunday 2.18.24 “A Poetry Reading in Response to Antisemitism” was held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York. Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They Rise, Why...

Israel / Palestine / Palestinian people

August 7, 2023

Vered Lev Kenaan’s Letter from Israel

Dear Friends, I would like to share with you the following news: Yesterday a special protest event was held in Tel Aviv – the death procession in which thousands of Arab and Jews participated...

Israel / Palestine

July 22, 2023

Israel’s Democracy in Danger — The March to Jerusalem

We just received the following letter & videos from our friend Vered Lev Keenan, & feel that this information needs to be made more public in this country: Dear Friends, For Twenty Nine weeks...

Arab Culture / Intellectuals / Obituaries / Palestine / Poetry / Translation

February 16, 2021

Remembering Mourid: 10 in Translation, Online

With thanks to the ever excellent & useful ArabLit for this compilation: On February 14, poet and memoirist Mourid Barghouti died in Amman, Jordan, having spent most of his life in various exiles: Below,...

Palestine / Poetry

May 17, 2019

Dareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime

via Arabic Literature and Translation Yesterday’s battle in Nazareth District Court was a victory for artistic expression but not for free speech, when charges against Dareen Tatour’s poem “Resist, My People, Resist Them” were overturned, but...

Arab Culture / Literature / Palestine

March 19, 2019

Attack on Beloved Gazan Novelist Atef Abu Saif

via ArabLit — Arabic Literature and Translation: On the evening of Monday, March 18, just after 5 p.m., some ten masked, armed men attacked Gazan novelist Atef Abu Saif and his neighbor Abdul Meni’m Jadallah...

Obituaries / Palestine

August 20, 2018

Uri Avnery (1923-2018)

Very saddened to learn this morning that Uri Avnery has died at 94. His weekly column which I read religiously — no, that’s the wrong word, though “irreligiously” won’t do either — as...

Israel / Journalism / Man-made Disaster / Palestine

June 8, 2018

Uri Avnery: Are You Brainwashed?

[PJ: & this applies just as well to the US than to Israel/Gaza] June 9, 2018 IT’S FRIGHTENING. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control...

Israel / Man-made Disaster / Palestine / Palestinian people

May 18, 2018

Uri Avnery: The Day of Shame

May 19, 2018 ON BLOODY MONDAY this week, when the number of Palestinian killed and wounded was rising by the hour, I asked myself: what would I have done if I had been a...

Arab Culture / Gaza Strip / Israel / Palestine / Uncategorized

May 15, 2018

5 from Gazan Writer Atef Abu Saif

via ArabLit. Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif is a talented and insightful political scientist, novelist, short-story writer, and editor who lives in Gaza: 1. Still Life: Scenes in Gaza Time (2006), translated by William Hutchins. This...