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...
Category: Palestine
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’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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux