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"When you are in Palestine, you see things exactly as they are." -Sara Yasin @palfest.bsky.social www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
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NEW MAGAZINE ALERT
"When you are in Palestine, you see things exactly as they are." -Sara Yasin @palfest.bsky.social www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
"the body has kept two calendars at once: one written in heat and salt, the other in mist and routine"
This is a really beautiful piece of writing. Alaa Alqaisi on Gaza and Dublin.
From @palfest.bsky.social' s new online magazine The Key.
I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.com
Tune into the PalFest Podcast on Radio Al-Hara Tuesday at noon Palestine time! We'll be bringing you a conversation between Saleem Haddad and Yasmin Zaher on their debut novels and their approaches to writing.
Listen every other Tuesday on Radio Al-Hara, and subscribe on select podcast platforms.
Join us next Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 9am ET/4pm Palestine with Palestinian writers @abdalhadi.bsky.social , Hala Alyan, Tareq Baconi, and Mai Serhan to discuss their contributions to the long tradition of Palestinian memoirs. Register at the link below www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
Tune into the PalFest Podcast on Radio Al-Hara tomorrow at noon Bethlehem time! We'll be bringing you a conversation between Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed on Palestine & Kashmir and the twin ruptures of 1948.
Listen every other Tuesday on Radio Al-Hara, and subscribe on select podcast platforms.
This event was sold out but has now been moved to a bigger space and more tickets are available.
You're all coming to hear Tareq Baconi & Saleem Haddad in conversation at Ibraaz on Weds 11 Feb, yes? @palfest.bsky.social x #LGBTHistoryMonth x amazingness. Free, but book fast bc tix are hottt.
ibraaz.org/whats-on/tar...
Part One, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’
Over the next six weeks, we will be publishing installments of Emile Habiby's The Six-Day Sextet, which is available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman. The next installment is set to appear February 9, 2026.
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
Tune into Radio Al-Hara at 12pm Palestine time on Tuesday 3 Feb. to listen to ep 7 of the PalFest Podcast: a conversation btw. Nasser Abourahme & Edwin Nasr about the demise of Zionism & the work of solidarity.
Listen every other Tuesday on Radio Al-Hara, and subscribe on select podcast platforms.
Tune into Radio Al-Hara at 12pm Bethlehem time tomorrow 1/20 to listen to our conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah.
A novel about the weight of silence, DISCIPLINE serves as a mirror for recent censorship campaign against Abdel-Fattah herself. Listen wherever you get your podcasts (excl. Spotify).
DISCIPLINE is exclusively available outside of so-called Australia through PalFest's Bookshelf subscription program - so order your copy here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf
Randa Abdel-Fattah in conversation with PalFest's own Sara Yasin.
They discuss Abdel-Fattah's razor-sharp new novel, DISCIPLINE, the racism at the core of Western institutions and the collapsing liberal order we are now witnessing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddEi...
What's the point of writing in the midst of a genocide? Tune in to @radioalhara tomorrow at noon (Palestine time) to listen to Tareq Baconi grapple with many of the questions that have become central to so many of us in these past two years. He was in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new
Episode 8 of The PalFest Podcast out now -
In a wide-ranging discussion the two writers compare notes on their experiences of publishing debut novels in English, how their work was packaged, presented and received - and the ways in which that diverged from their intentions when writing.
Tune in to Radio al-Hara tomorrow at noon Palestine time to listen to the third episode of the PalFest Podcast: Laleh Khalili speaking with Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about their book "Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine."
Listen here: www.radioalhara.net/
And for those that prefer their podcasts on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9O...
Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed discuss Palestine, Kashmir and their parallel histories. This was a live event recorded at London’s Southbank Centre and we’re glad to be able to share it with you now as the latest episode of the PalFest Podcast
thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/special-li...
We have added a new action item to the toolkit: flood the BBC WhatsApp number putting pressure on them to cover the UK hunger strike! bit.ly/P4P-Toolkit
This week’s book of the week is Sahar Mustafah’s new novel THE SLIGHTEST GREEN, a moving and multigenerational “story of the diaspora, of the eternal calling for Palestine, that is gorgeous and illuminating.”
Powerfully etched in Sahar Mustafah’s honest and lyrical prose, THE SLIGHTEST GREEN explor
DISCIPLINE is exclusively available outside of so-called Australia through PalFest's Bookshelf subscription program - so order your copy here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf
Randa Abdel-Fattah in conversation with PalFest's own Sara Yasin.
They discuss Abdel-Fattah's razor-sharp new novel, DISCIPLINE, the racism at the core of Western institutions and the collapsing liberal order we are now witnessing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddEi...
The second installment of our collaboration with Radio al-Hara will air today at 12pm Palestine time. Tune in to listen to Episode 2 of the PalFest Podcast, with the editors of the major new anthology, HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: PALESTINIAN POETRY.
Listen here: www.radioalhara.net/
And you can watch it on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddEi...
Ep 5 of the PalFest Podcast is out:
Randa Abdel Fattah talks to Sara Yasin about DISCIPLINE
They discuss Abdel-Fattah's razor-sharp new novel, DISCIPLINE and the navigation of racism and censorship within Western institutions.
All your listening links are here: www.palfest.org/podcast
To All Those We Are Indebted To - a four book series in Arabic & English, each arranged around a dialogue between two critical thinkers.
First in the series, 'the light through the shards', showcased here.
We are so pleased to be working with Bilnaes Books to help distribute these -
What is the point of writing in the midst of genocide?
In episode 4 of the PalFest Podcast, Tareq Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates consider this and other questions animated by Baconi's new memoir FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION.
Listen at: www.palfest.org/podcast
Episode 3 of the PalFest Podcast is out! Esteemed professor and writer Laleh Khalili is in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine; Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox & Rafeef Ziadah. Listen at: www.palfest.org/podcast
