Fady Joudah
@FadyJoudah
Palestinian writer, poet, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize
Your charity, your words of shock after the genocide, won’t make a difference. We will not accept your apology after the genocide. What has been done, has been done. I want you to look in the mirror, and ask: where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?
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."
We spoke with mouths filled with dust. We sang, even with broken teeth. We prayed from fractured knees. And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain. -Alaa Alqaisi arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…
In Bath, UK, people read the names of 15,500 Palestinian children killed in Gaza — nonstop for 17 hours. Artists, teachers, parents, even an MP stood in tears, name after name. Different tongues. One conscience. Not just a vigil — a stand for humanity. Their names filled the…
From a forthcoming essay by my beloved friend @AlaaQAlQaisi. I love you, Alaa.
“So that the crime is climate change and not a massacre.”
This was the cover of the issue of Life which also included the My Lai photos
A great magazine I’m honoured to be in; I wrote about Moses and redemption and Palestinian interiority
For more about the issue, and its table of contents, featuring @shaabiranks, @yasminelrifae, @FadyJoudah, @hhnnccnnll, @UssamaMakdisi, @gal_debord, and many, many others: parapraxismagazine.com/magazine
Not Gaza 2025, but Jaffa 1948, after the Nakba #ThisDidntBeginonOct7 #HistoryRepeating
They seay they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to. John Berger on Cicadas
My withdrawal statement from the Edinburgh Literary Festival.
My shadow is ahead of me to meet your body. Your body is ahead of your shadow. It means the light to us.
Bits of Islamic Spain in Manhattan: Central Synagogue in Midtown East (est. 1872) designed by German Jews in the Moorish Revival style. There are few purpose-built mosques in NYC, so to find traces of medieval Islamic architectural forms, you often have to look to synagogues!
""With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." I spoke to Arabic literature scholar @FakhreddineHuda on being vilified at a US congressional hearing, UPenn's cowardice & the racism of literature depts even as Palestinians are being massacred radicalbookscollective.com/p/with-gaza-we… @WARSCAPES
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
A true Palestinian poet resistant to the manufacture of American publishers, editor, or even translators
They speak now of a ceasefire. A ceasefire. As if death could be paused. As if blood could be bargained with. As if the heavens would take notice of papers signed in rooms far from the stench of burned flesh. I wait. We all wait. Two million of us, sitting in the antechamber of…