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Bearing witness to Gaza as a place of life
A new book shows a side of the enclave rarely seen in news reports — its vibrant history, culture, and people — to insist that Gaza speak for itself.
By
Mohammed R. Mhawish
March 13, 2025
Viet Thanh Nguyen broke a BDS rule. Now he is its vocal advocate
The Vietnamese-American writer reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.
By
Edo Konrad
and
Alaa Salama
December 17, 2024
How do we tell the story of the Nakba when the plot hasn’t ended?
Elias Khoury’s new book encapsulates the symbiotic relationship between literature and the Nakba, exploring its nature as a continuum of calamities.
By
Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani
May 15, 2024
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Nurturing a new home for Palestinian literature
From photos of Gaza postage stamps to fictional stories about Shakira, Fikra magazine aims to be a creative, uncensored platform for writers and artists.
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Vera Sajrawi
September 6, 2023
Ceding the Palestinian narrative to … Palestinians
Marcello Di Cintio’s book, ‘Pay No Heed to the Rockets,’ ends up revealing something discomforting about us: our notions of Palestinian life may have little to do with how Palestinians experience themselves. Pay No Heed to the Rockets,” Marcello Di Cintio, Counterpoint, 2018. Marcello Di Cintio’s Pay No Heed to the Rockets borrows its title…
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Samer Badawi
September 6, 2018
‘Literature’s task is to pose alternatives to political reality’
A conversation, not an agreement. Beth Kissileff talks politics, literature, Israel, Diaspora, conformity, and literature's role in shaping the world with Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar, authors of ‘Art and War.’
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May 7, 2016
The diaspora is an integral part of Hebrew literature
There is a ceaseless movement of Israeli culture — and the diaspora experience is just waking up and testing its global limits. By Mati Shemoelof BERLIN — There is no such thing as “Hebrew literature written outside Israel” because the definition of “outside Israel” cannot address art in general or literature in particular. Literature is created…
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+972 Magazine
April 22, 2016
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