In our January issue, TMR 57 • PALESTINE, we ask: How do we bear witness without spectacle or amnesia?

🗣️ Featuring essays, art, interviews, and more. The issue drops on Friday, January 30th. Stay tuned.

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We’re back with our Monthly Book Pick! 📚✨
This month, Tania Stein recommends Against the Loveless World — a powerful story of love, loss & survival from a Palestinian woman’s prison cell.
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Why did Sonia Sulaiman name this collection of Palestinian speculative fiction THYME TRAVELLERS, and how did she select the entries? Find the answers to these questions in more in this Q&A. https://buff.ly/4eh1LCp #PalestinianSpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #PalestinianLit @soniasulaiman.bsky.social

The vanished railway station: An Old Carriage with Curtains by Ghassan Zaqtan In the western foothills of the Hebron Mountains, about forty kilometres southwest of Jerusalem, lies what remains of Zakariyya, a village with a history stretching back millennia. It was the birthpla...

My final post for March is a review of An Old Carriage with Curtains by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Samuel Wilder
#PalestinianLit
roughghosts.com/2024/03/31/t...

The revolution isn’t a rocket but a river that flows and pours forth: Passage to the Plaza by Saha... Each summer night in Nablus was just like the next: breezes pregnant with the scent of jasmine, dew and whiffs from the sewers. The municipality went to great pains: every morning the marketplace smel...

New on my blog, a review of Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh, translated by Sawad Hussain #PalestinianLit
roughghosts.com/2023/12/07/t...

A tale of two travellers, you and I: In the Absence of Presence by Mahmoud Darwish Allow me to see you, now that you have left me and I have left you, safe and sound like pure prose on a stone that may turn green or yellow in your absence. Allow me to gather you and your name, just ...

A tale of two travellers, you and I: In the Absence of Presence by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Sinan Antoon
#PalestinianLit
roughghosts.com/2023/11/15/a...