Palestine Festival of Literature

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…

Nour Elassy was one of the very lucky few to be evacuated from Gaza and has just arrived in Paris. This crowdfunding campaign to cover her studies at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris only needs €2,000 more. chuffed.org/project/137907…

It's endless and bottomless.

Absolutely stunning package in the mail today from The Palfest Bookshelf @PalFest Two books about the one and only Ghassan Kanafani. Importantly, really moved and grateful to have Anni Kanafani’s lovely book about her husband who was taken so soon and so brutally. The PLO…

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@SidhePress just released an anthology on Grief titled “To Lay Sun Into a Forest”. I have contributed a poem “My Father, A Refugee” All proceeds from the sales of the anthology will be sent by Sidhe Press to @sameerproject in Gaza. To order: sidhe-press.eu/product/to-lay…

While most attention is on Gaza and less so on places like Jenin, Israel is also driving Palestinians off their land in the Jordan Valley in occupied West Bank through bureaucratic restrictions, denial of access to resources, & increasing settler violence dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-jo…

Artist Deem Zurub who drew the martyrs got killed an hour ago.

Israel is literally bombing everywhere: Gaza, east Gaza, north Gaza, central Gaza, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, Rafah, and Al-Mwasi. It’s getting sharper every day, with no reduction at all.

Mark Zuckerberg is yet another self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, a typically fraudulent moniker which in practice translates as DEI and a container ship of steroids for me, but none for thee: "The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by…

An Israeli air strike hits the headquarters of the Deir Al Balah municipality, central Gaza Strip.

Statement from the Diocese of Jerusalem on Israel's bombing of Al Ahli Hospital. The Israeli attack also damaged St. Philip's Church x.com/muntherisaac/s…

Do you know what unsettles me most about this war? Not just the bombs. Not just the starvation. Not just the cold, calculated siege of two million souls. It’s the silence. It’s the choking, complicit silence of a world that once branded the 20th century as the “century of…

Medical facilities overlayed over the IDF designated kill zone map. Many are now off-limits to Palestinians. 62.3% of Gaza (227.5 sq km) is IDF designated kill zone.

Places Israel ordered emptied of Palestinians since it restarted the mass-killing, includes both the buffer zone as well as forced displacement orders. Israel ordered over 60% of Gaza off-limits to Palestinians. Note: Does not yet include 2nd displacement order from today.

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🚨Update :The Israeli army killed Judge Amjad Sharab, a judge at the Gaza Court of First Instance, along with his daughter Jumana, in a strike that targeted the vicinity of the Public Service Hospital in central Gaza City.

In this episode, author, commentator and human rights advocate Khaled Mansour joins us to talk about how reading Arab women’s memoirs can help one gain a new understanding of the region’s collective history. With a focus on Leila Khaled's memoir: arablit.org/2025/04/11/new…

The 8 little Palestinian children massacred in a single Israeli attack on Shujaiya yesterday .

We're pleased to announce the 2nd instalment of the PalFest Bookshelf is Ghassan Kanafani's THE REVOLUTION OF 1936-1939 IN PALESTINE - accompanied by a special printing of Anni Kanafani's political memoir, first published one year after his assassination. palfest.org/bookshelf