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Freedom Sailors is a first-hand account of the first successful attempt to break the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip by sailing two boats into Gaza City in 2008. Read more about New book "Freedom Sailors" provides riveting account of siege-breaking journey to Gaza
A new book examines how the widespread inculcation of anti-Palestinian ideology in the minds of Israel’s youth is achieved in school textbooks. Read more about Book review: how Israeli school textbooks teach kids to hate
The legendary late comic book writer Harvey Pekar and illustrator JT Waldman examine Pekar’s disillusionment with the State of Israel in Not the Israel my Parents Promised Me . Read more about Book review: Comic curmudgeon Harvey Pekar faces truth about Israel
Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses is a bewildering labyrinth of a book, yet its very untidiness conveys a powerful sense of the textures of place, time and custom of Palestine’s history. Read more about Magic realism with footnotes: novelist Nasrallah creates a genre of his own
Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians. Read more about The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti's latest memoir
Whatever the literary qualities of Günter Grass’s poem, it testifies to his lingering literary eminence that it has engendered such a colossal backlash, to the point that he has now been banned from Israel. Read more about Poem sparks debate about whether Germany should absolve Israel's crimes
Organizers of the Palestine 5k Run/Walk say that the third annual event will strengthen community ties and encourage Palestinian children to express themselves through writing and reading. Read more about Palestine 5k aims to empower children, build community
In Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It , 27-year-old twin misfits Iman and Rashid Mujahed try to find belonging in a contemporary Gaza groaning under Israeli siege and air strikes, and street battles between competing political factions. Read more about Debut novel unflinchingly portrays Palestinian divisions
Poet Lisa Suheir Majaj writes exquisitely of the profound personal and collective loss that defines Palestinian history in her book, Geographies of Light. Read more about "Words flower from fragile bodies": the poignant poetry of Lisa Suheir Majaj
Alexander Billet profiles Palestinian-American spoken word poet Remi Kanazi and his new book of poems, Poetic Injustice. Read more about Remi Kanazi's poetry of struggle
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