literature

Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh awarded Moroccan literary prize

Submitted by Sarah Irving on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 08:33

Khalifeh was awarded the Mohamed Zafzaf Prize for Arabic Literature in a ceremony at the Asilah Cultural Festival in Morocco.

Palestinian writers denied UK visas

Submitted by Sarah Irving on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:05

Two leading Palestinian writers from Gaza have been prevented from speaking at the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab art in London.

Palestinian poet, translator win prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 21:56

Ghassan Zaqtan was nearly prevented from receiving award when Canada initially refused to issue him visa.

Teen novel depicts Israeli settlements as unnatural

Sarah Irving

14 June 2013

William Sutcliffe’s The Wall features an extremist who shoots Palestinian olive trees.

Poet Kevin Coval: young Jews should stand with Palestine

Alexander Billet

Chicago

10 June 2013

Poet Kevin Coval denounces Israeli rap star for “making Zionism chic.”

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Imagining Palestine through PalFest

Submitted by Rana Baker on Sun, 06/02/2013 - 09:36

The Palestine Festival of Literature was very much about feeling and thinking deeply about Palestine, about ourselves, and surroundings in the context of home from a literary rather than a rigid political eye.

Leading writers rise to challenge in new collection "Seeking Palestine"

Selma Dabbagh

25 February 2013

Writers and artists from different disciplines provide an extraordinarily frank, fresh and unsentimental assessment of what Palestinians are and have become.