📣We have published a special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies co-edited by @amahlbishara.bsky.social and Diana Keown Allan. Contributions to this volume address how diverse media forms shape and express Palestinian lifeworlds and politics. 📚🧵 tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...
What a superb, incisive essay that gets all that's right and wrong, not simply about woke culture but more specifically about those who wield it, by
@NesrineMalik
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The advance reading copies of TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER have arrived. Forthcoming in April 2025 from @harvardpress. I’m sure if you really want to review this, Harvard University Press will send one.
New issue on catastrophe from Mizna journal of SWANA literature + art is out
Featuring contributions from Leila Abdelrazaq, Sarah Aziza, Summer Farah (@summ.bsky.social), Danez Smith, Nadia Shammas (@nadiashammas.bsky.social) & many more
mizna.org/product/mizn...
The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2
End of an era: My latest addresses the grim reality that October 7 drove the last nail in the coffin of a Palestinian national movement that took organizational and military form in the mid-1960s - Hamas was the last man standing, but has joined the rest
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
Poetry in a Time of Genocide, a two-episode special of the IMEU's This Is Palestine podcast.
Host Diana Buttu speaks with National Book Award finalists Fady Joudah and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social) on genocide and defying cultural erasure
pod.link/1509337661/e...
