1 July 2013
Khalifeh was awarded the Mohamed Zafzaf Prize for Arabic Literature in a ceremony at the Asilah Cultural Festival in Morocco. Read more about Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh awarded Moroccan literary prize
21 June 2013
Two leading Palestinian writers from Gaza have been prevented from speaking at the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab art in London. Read more about Palestinian writers denied UK visas
14 June 2013
Ghassan Zaqtan was nearly prevented from receiving award when Canada initially refused to issue him visa. Read more about Palestinian poet, translator win prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize
14 June 2013
William Sutcliffe’s The Wall features an extremist who shoots Palestinian olive trees. Read more about Teen novel depicts Israeli settlements as unnatural
Chicago 10 June 2013
Poet Kevin Coval denounces Israeli rap star for “making Zionism chic.” Read more about Poet Kevin Coval: young Jews should stand with Palestine
2 June 2013
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. Read more about Imagining Palestine through PalFest
25 February 2013
Writers and artists from different disciplines provide an extraordinarily frank, fresh and unsentimental assessment of what Palestinians are and have become. Read more about Leading writers rise to challenge in new collection "Seeking Palestine"
29 December 2012
A musical exploration of Israel’s 2002 Operation Defensive Shield was one of the highlights of a recent festival. Read more about West Bank reconstructed at London's Nour Festival
Edinburgh 7 December 2012
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s shattered Palestinian dreams. Read more about Emerging from an “age of defeat”: interview with poet Ghassan Zaqtan
3 November 2012
Jacob Nammar’s autobiography describes a Jerusalem that is impossible to imagine today. Read more about Book review: A family history firmly rooted in Jerusalem's soil