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London: Nov 17 we launch CONFRONTING ZIONISM with Noura Erakat, John Reynolds & Rafeef Ziadah.
This will be the *only* UK event.
Don't miss this chance to hear from some of the most influential thinkers on Palestine working today and their new work.
palfest.org/full-schedule/lo…
Join us on November 17th at The Light, the centre of Friends House in central London.
Noura Erakat and John Reynolds will present their new book, "Confronting Zionism" followed by a conversation with Rafeef Ziadah. Ta-Nehisi Coates will introduce the night.
Buy your tickets and order copies of the book here: palfest.org/full-schedule/lo…
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“In The Sleep Thief, being seen involves being classified, watched, and misread, while being invisible means risking erasure, even when disappearance is deliberately embraced as a strategy of survival and resistance.”
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Tomorrow is the trial of Mada Masr’s Lina Atallah who is the latest victim in Egypt’s war against independent journalism. Like the journalists of the fact-checking platform Matsd2sh, who were detained before her, she faces trumped up charges and her fate is unknown. Read her in her own words:
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& @PalFest's book of the week (in their essential newsletter) is this beauty.
Read this poem from the collection, for Mahmoud Darwish (Enter “Butterfly’s Burden”):
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& order:
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Subscribers to @PalFest's THE KEY today got a new Mahmoud Darwish translation in their email (by the beautiful Barbara Romaine).
Support their brilliant work here:
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“I am the land in its awakening. You shall not pass.”
In this week’s edition of The Key, a new translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Land Poem.” Read it now:
thekeymagazine.com/p/mahmoud…
“For this future is not inevitable. It is possible, probable even, if we work strategically.”
Part one of our video series with Tareq Baconi on his new political treatise “What Now.”
Subscribe before the end of November to get it as your first shipment.
Subscribe to get your copy now: palfest.org/bookshelf
Ta-Nehisi Coates will give a special introduction at our event CONFRONTING ZIONISM with Noura Erakat & John Reynolds.
📅 17 Nov, 6:30pm
📍 Friends House, London
🎟️ £13
Get your tickets now 👇
palfest.org/full-schedule/lo…
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I can’t wait to hear the most awesome speakers
London: Nov 17 we launch CONFRONTING ZIONISM with Noura Erakat, John Reynolds & Rafeef Ziadah.
This will be the *only* UK event.
Don't miss this chance to hear from some of the most influential thinkers on Palestine working today and their new work.
palfest.org/full-schedule/lo…
“Sumoud is knowing what matters and making sure it stays alive.” Ahdaf Soueif on Adam Rouhana’s new photobook, “Before Freedom.”
Read her essay on The Key: thekeymagazine.com/p/before-…
Palestine Festival of Literature retweeted
London: Nov 17 we launch CONFRONTING ZIONISM with Noura Erakat, John Reynolds & Rafeef Ziadah.
This will be the *only* UK event.
Don't miss this chance to hear from some of the most influential thinkers on Palestine working today and their new work.
palfest.org/full-schedule/lo…
“We will not leave from here.” — Noura Erakat
CONFRONTING ZIONISM: the only UK launch, with Noura Erakat, John Reynolds & Rafeef Ziadah.
Tickets available here 👇
palfest.org/full-schedule/lo…
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“The more I studied Zionism, the more I spent time there, the more I realized that every inch of Israel is Palestine. It was always Palestine.”
American-Dutch writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser speaks out against Zionism in an interview with Times Radio, explaining how his understanding of Palestine changed through studying Zionism and visiting the occupied West Bank.
“You would have to be trying not to see it, to not see it.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the visceral racism of the Israeli state, at our landmark Southbank Centre conversation with Tareq Baconi and Nesrine Malik.
You can watch the whole conversation on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/652EVCK1UoQ
