This taut short story by Majd Aburrub distills the notion of language as identity marker — and ever constant reminder of home — into a single name.

🔗Read the full story: https://bit.ly/sara-a-short-story

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A Wealth of Sage (Nonfiction) a true-to-life allegory about the rote denial of atrocities and the struggle to reckon with misleadership

"A Wealth of Sage," another reflection prompted by the project to translate the work of late Gazan poet Heba Al-Madhoun.

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Green Birds in Jerusalem: On Translating Gazan Poet Heba Al-Madhoun https://tinyurl.com/TranslateHeba I’ve been entrusted to translate a Gazan poet’s manuscript, which I can’t read. I speak almost no Arabic and can’t decipher a single letter. I was not taught the Arab...

About the project to translate Gazan author Heba Al-Madhoun's surviving poetry manuscript; some backstory and a glimpse at the emerging work.

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Front cover of the novel, Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa. It's a hardcover book with jewel toned blues, pinks, violets, and peaches in an abstract geometric design overlaid on a starry night sky. The text is gold and white.

Current reading: Against the Loveless World, by Palestinian American author and activist Susan Abulhawa. 💙📚 #palestinianwriters #decolonizeyourbookshelf

This is important to click on, to read, to sit and breathe with, to let break open our hearts again and again and again —

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