We marked the publication of "Until I Return: the Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi" with a special live event in New York recorded with Ismail Khalidi and a selection of his special guests.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_tj...
Have you all signed up to @palfest.bsky.social's incredible new magazine THE KEY, edited by Sara Yasin? Subscribe for free (it's on Beehiiv), support from a mere $2 a month, dive in and read (new poems by Zena Agha & Tamara Nasser wd be my hot picks.)
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It was a unique event, with actors reading scenes from three of Khalidi’s works. The scenes were performed by Hind Shoufani, John Early, Ahmed Maher, Leta Levy along with Khalidi himself.
You can enjoy it as a podcast here.
www.palfest.org/podcast
We marked the publication of "Until I Return: the Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi" with a special live event in New York recorded with Ismail Khalidi and a selection of his special guests.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_tj...
Tune into the PalFest Podcast on Radio Al-Hara Today at noon Palestine time! This week we have a conversation with Lina Mounzer on writing through crisis.
Lina is a writer translator and Senior Editor with @markaz-review.bsky.social - make sure to look up Agony Aunt for the Third World column too.
Issue 004 of The Key is out now with:
· Memories of a poet's home in southern Lebanon
· A photo essay on prisoners' liberation
· A review of Sabri Jiryis’ The Foundations of Zionism
· New poetry from Zena Agha
www.thekeymagazine.com
A family photo of the author as a child in the mid 1980s with her father and brother. They are relaxing on grass, looking at the camera, the girl in the foreground smiling and relaxed.
New on THE KEY:
Huda Fakhreddine writes about her family home in South Lebanon, in a village that now lives under the terror of Israel’s bombs.
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...
A family photo of the author as a child in the mid 1980s with her father and brother. They are relaxing on grass, looking at the camera, the girl in the foreground smiling and relaxed.
New on THE KEY:
Huda Fakhreddine writes about her family home in South Lebanon, in a village that now lives under the terror of Israel’s bombs.
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...
For April & May's Bookshelf we have @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY - an epic history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism's pressure to colonise and subjugate another people.
Subscribe now at www.palfest.org/bookshelf and get an original artwork postcard too
This is the most fantastic pairing of books – UK readers, Here Where We Live is Our Country is the current @palfest.bsky.social Bookshelf subscription title, way ahead of UK publication! And The Edge of Space-Time is coming soon from @canongate.co.uk & I can tell you it will blow your mind.
We're honoured to publish a new poem by Nasser Rabah, THE CAGE.
Translated by Wiam El Tamami.
Our new online magazine, THE KEY, will be a regular home for new poetry from Palestine. Subscribe through the link in our bio.
A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
On the Black and Palestinian experiences, the aftermath of the US election, the boycott movement and more.
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
Tune into the PalFest Podcast on Radio Al-Hara Tuesday at noon Palestine time! This week we have a conversation with Mahmoud al-Shaer; editor, curator and poet.
Mahmoud has long been a key figure in the literary scene in Gaza - a scene that Israel has all but destroyed.
A portrait photograph of the rapper Haykal. He has long hair and a light beard and a shaft of light is falling over him, catching the red of his t-shirt. He looks at the camera with a friendly expression. He looks like he is at home, a porcelain cup on the table in front of him.
"Hip-hop has a hold on him, but he knows it’s complicated. . . Hip-hop can embody resistance, but it is imperial power that transmits that message across the world."
Check out our profile of Haykal, a Palestinian rapper getting by in the heart of Empire.
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/haykal-alb...
"In childhood,
I made my siblings
a tent of pillows
and blankets.
It would fall on us,
and we’d laugh.
The tent walked us far,
out of the house
and the homeland.
It fell on us,
and we died.
Next time,
I will make my siblings
a homeland
that returns them home."
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/three-new-...
In Issue 003:
- A first look at @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book, an epic social history of the Bund
- A profile of Haykal, an incredible Palestinian rapper (ft. our first photo shoot)
- A Nasser Rabah poem
- An extensive Q&A w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates, out tomorrow
www.thekeymagazine.com
It’s time for another episode of the Palfest Podcast from the Palestine Festival of Literature!
Here they talk with Molly Crabapple about her book, a popular history of the Jewish Bund - a secular, socialist, uncompromisingly anti-Zionist revolutionary movement. youtu.be/zn01FwM_xnM?...
A portrait photograph of the rapper Haykal. He has long hair and a light beard and a shaft of light is falling over him, catching the red of his t-shirt. He looks at the camera with a friendly expression. He looks like he is at home, a porcelain cup on the table in front of him.
A photograph of the Dome of the Rock with the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, silhouetted in the foreground front of it.
🔑 A new poem from Nasser Rabah, one of Gaza’s most necessary voices, translated by Wiam El-Tamami.
🔑 And an in-depth Q&A with Ta-Nehisi Coates, publishing from tomorrow.
Check it out at the link in our bio or subscribe at www.thekeymagazine.com
The words "The Key" written out three times, one above the other, getting a little larger each time, in the colour orange. Then underneath it says Issue 003.
Artwork postcard by Molly Crabapple featuring her illustration above an election flyer from Volkovsyk in 1938: “The Jewish masses must clearly and openly declare: We are not foreigners! We will not leave! We will fight for our freedom and rights, together with Polish workers and peasants. And if the Zionists … raise a hand to hinder our struggle, then we will kick them off the Jewish street.”
Issue 003 of The Key has landed.
We’ve got so much to share with you this week:
🔑 The first look at Molly Crabapple’s epic social history of the anti-Zionist Jewish Labour Bund, eleven years in the making.
🔑 A profile of one of the most innovative Palestinian rappers working today, Haykal. 1/2
The newest @palfest.bsky.social pod features Alaa Abd el-Fattah, in his first extended conversation since being released from prison in Egypt, with Palestinian poet and performer Farah Barqawi thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/alaa-abd-e...
Three quiet and powerful poems by Haidar al-Ghazali and translated by Zainab al-Qaissi. A central figure among the younger generation of poets from Gaza, al-Ghazali's work refuses to sacrifice tenderness, no matter the subject.
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Lama Z. Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian psychoanalyst, traces how exile and institutional formation shaped her into a “conscripted container” – a colonized subject conditioned and trained to absorb erasure and call it professionalism.
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MY HEART IS A FOREST - an Arabic children's book from Palestine that we are proud to bring you in partnership with @tamerinstitute
Published in 2018, written by Ranin Hannah and Majd Kayyal and illustrated by by Ra'ouf Cray, MY HEART IS A FOREST is a collection of songs for children.
Mohammed R. Mhawish, a journalist from Gaza, responds to the debate over "The Voice of Hind Rajab" and what it means for the Palestinian cause. The conversation misses the entire point, says Mhawish.
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Ahhhh lovely to see Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING on top of the stack there. Look out for a recording of our incredible event via @palfest.bsky.social podcast! Or @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk podcast! Maybe both? And get the book.
Available from @palfest.bsky.social website & the Maktaba at Ibraaz!
"Many world leaders did not fail to see us. They could not afford to find us. And in that truth there is a terrible freedom: The freedom of the one who no longer performs her own unfindability."
Hind Rajab deserved a film that knew her.
I reviewed "The Voice of Hind Rajab", the thriller that made Palestinians the agents of their own death. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...
The Key 002 is now online, featuring a landmark essay from Lama Zuhair Khouri who traces how exile and institutional formation shaped her into a “conscripted container” – a colonized subject conditioned and trained to absorb erasure and call it professionalism
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/psychoanal...
We have collaborated with three of the most exciting young artists in Gaza - Sara Ahmed, Kholoud Harb and Fahed Shehab - to offer you a limited edition print run of greeting cards.
100% of the profits go directly to the artists.
Check out the collection on our shop: www.palfest.org/shop/greetin...