Batley Literature Festival @FestivalBatley
Reading amongst the mills Independent Literature Festival. Shoddi & Mungbean festival mascots [email protected] batleylitfest.weebly.com Batley, West Yorkshire Joined January 2022-
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Join Librarians and Archivists with Palestine on April 16 for 📚One Book Live with Mosab Abu Toha 🇵🇸, author of our “One Book, Many Communities” title for 2024: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. Register for the event at buff.ly/3TNcZGq.
Eight Kirklees libraries could become community-run as cutbacks continue examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-york… The 1964 Act doesn’t make any provision for volunteer-led ‘libraries’, they are book-swaps. #savelibraries
I wrote the Arts Council a haiku. #Poetry #Poem #ArtsCouncil
Finally! The best day of the year. We've sourced ingredients for your perfect #PancakeDay. (All from online collections, of course.) You'll need a nice, hot pan. This one (1833) is courtesy of the John Johnson Archive of Printed Ephemera.
I called this “algo” but it isn’t just self-censorship people are forced to in order to not be shadow-banned, it’s also replicated in mainstream media’s editorial choices, which deliberately obfuscate the empire’s extreme violences. Every day they murder language.
Libraries in Gaza have suffered often irreparable damage and destruction under Israeli bombardment. Visit the link in bio to read the full report.
In this report, Librarians and Archivists with Palestine offers a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces since October 7, 2023. Visit the link in bio to read the full report.
‘I am not there and I am not here’: a Palestinian American poet on bearing witness to atrocity theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…
There's still time to book on to our webinar with @OpenUni_RfP next Wednesday! Book your free place here: worldbookday.com/events/
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We continue to add to this page. Zines, Books, and More: Free Reads for a Free Palestine publishersforpalestine.org/2024/01/10/16-…
This semester, I will be teaching Arabic and Arab American Literature at San Francisco State University. The class will begin with Refaat Alareer’s poetry and edited anthology, Gaza Writes Back, and close with Wisam Rafeedie’s novel The Trinity of Fundamentals,
Today, we’re sharing a collection of Palestinian writing published over the years on WWB, featuring authors from Adania Shibli to Najwan Darwish and spanning Palestine and the global diaspora. buff.ly/3vw7vqP
Mohammed al-Qudwa is a young poet trying to get his family out of Gaza. He performed his poem, LONGING FOR HAIFA, at our last festival. Today, Mahershala Ali, reads it for you - asking everyone to click the link in our bio and contribute to Mohamed's GoFundMe. #FreePalestine
Bereavement affects all ages, including young people. Yet, often children and teenagers are left out of conversations about the end of life. Join @alisonwaller for this session that will explore adolescent grief and the creative ways to discuss it. 👉🏼 buff.ly/4a5OT0F
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Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.
Join MECA for this special online event w poet Mosab Abu Toha, founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza. He will be joining us from Cairo to speak about his personal experiences living thru seven weeks of Israel's genocidal attacks. Register now: mecaforpeace.org/mosab
Alareer was an activist, writer, translator and literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza who inspired a generation of Palestinian writers in Gaza pulse.ly/0lpbvdna3y
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Solidarity with student groups establishing Popular Universities for Gaza on the campus grounds of Columbia, Yale, NYU, MIT, the New School, WashU and UNC; and to the students protesting censorship at USC. Students at Rutgers also overwhelmingly voted to divest from Israel and…
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What is written are actually the Ninety-Nine Names of Allāh but in a Chinese style - each character inspired by the Chinese character '壽' [shòu; longevity] in terms of layout, structure & coordination of Arabic script. The writing technique was lost with the death of its founder
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This heart-breaking poem by Mohammed El-Kurd appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of Poetry Review. We're glad to see it striking a chord with so many.
I told you tonight we die as a family we were supposed to die as a family
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'Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.' Fernando Pessoa
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As the tide turns globally, I see the effort to pin the blame solely on Netanyahu. The strategy is to resurrect Israel's image in the process of toppling him. But genocide is not a one-man show; the whole system is culpable. Zionism must be abolished. There is no going back.
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