A Palestinian poet insisting on poetry that overcomes the most horrific timelines, Nima Hasan’s voice shames and exposes the politics of necromancy that pass as solidarity, a necromancy that requires a compromised Palestinian voice or a broken Palestinian body to hold up. lithub.com/old-song-a-p...

“my many eyes open/close / in the dark that you’ll never / master or capture.” Read “Because You Wished For It,” a poem by Ahmad Almallah.

Read Yasmin El-Rifae's review of the following books: -[...], by Fady Joudah. -Border Wisdom, by Ahmad Almallah. Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In “Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic,” Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that “A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written post-extermination is a victory.” proteanmag.com/2025/04/26/p...

"It certainly takes chutzpah to make another’s suffering about you—but it’s outright pathological to recast another people’s obliteration at the hands of your religion as a chance to redeem yourself." proteanmag.com/2025/01/31/b...

Despite the judge’s dismissal of our lawsuit, Penn’s failure to protect students, faculty, and staff standing for justice in Palestine remains clear. We refuse to be silenced. We will continue to fight for our right to teach and learn without fear. We are appealing.

Working with Ahmad Almallah on his forthcoming collection Wrong Winds has been a sort of North Star during many dark months of witnessing the US-backed genocide in Gaza. Wrong Winds is out on March 18th from @fonografeditions.bsky.social and available for pre-order now.

"As colonized subjects, we address a more powerful other, constantly seeking validation from it, even as we claim to reject and resist its power over us. Gaza demands of us a redirection … " @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social & Yasmeen Hanoosh on language, power, and Gaza themarkaz.org/huda-fakhred...

Thoughtful piece unpacking politics of translation under oppression by @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social & Yasmeen Hanush: "Gaza is no longer just a place; Gaza is a locus and ethos; it is a signpost in place that has also become a source point of time."

It takes mind-numbing depravity to try to kill as many civilians of your enemy before the ceasefire begins which you have agreed to. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

When you claim “quorum was maintained,” but👇🏽 before / after of room @MLAforPalestine & allies incredible action at #MLA25 Delegate Assembly. Then again MLA leadership has shown a penchant for cruelest calculus, “fiduciary responsibility” in exchange for abandoning Palestinians.

As a journalist & scholar, I’m inspired by @srseikaly.bsky.social’s words on @democracynow.org: “The way forward is not to be passive & obedient. The way forward is to be ethical & to stand for what is just & to stand against this Israeli genocide which—again—is armed & abetted by the United States”

قريبًا عن ⁧‫#مرفأ_للثقافة_والنشر‬⁩ ‏الغلاف للفنان الفلسطيني بشار الحروب ‏وقد صار العالم كله فلسطين

Mary of Gaza, Ibrahim Nasrallah arablit.org/2024/02/02/n... @arablit.bsky.social

It was an incredible honor to be in conversation with @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social and @palumboliu.bsky.social for the Speaking Out of Place podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A fifth baby displaced by Israel died of the cold in Deir el Balah, Gaza today. This is not a natural disaster, this is a crime against humanity committed with the full support of the US government.

This is the last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, walking toward Israeli tanks before being detained by Israeli forces after they destroyed the last hospital in northern Gaza. His current condition is unknown.

60 Minutes ran an infomercial for Israeli terrorism & it sparked zero outrage in liberal circles. I wish there was a constituency for caring about this stuff anywhere near what there is for CNN being insufficiently critical of Trump or w/e but racist cheerleading of US-backed violence is bipartisan

#FreePalestine #BDS. This episode of Speaking Out of Place contains two brilliant readings, and much discussion of #Palestinian #poetry and #resistance Please share.

“Something looms there beyond these heights. / I need a prophet’s tears / for sight.” Read “What Zarqaʾ al-Yamama Didn’t Say,” a poem by Mohamed Abdelbari (translated and introduced by @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social).

من "زمن صغير تحت شمس ثانية" دار النهضة، بيروت، ٢.١٩ الترجمة نشرت في مجلة بنيبال

WATCH: This is how Israel uses food to colonize Palestine and erase Palestinian culture and identity. youtu.be/ImMS666YvhE?...

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

THE UNIVERSE ALL AT ONCE by Salim Barakat and PALESTINIAN by Ibrahim Nasrallah on World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2024 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

فرحة المظلوم كلمة حق لا مردّ لها ‏ونظلّ محكومين بالأمل

حينَ ماتَتْ الحربُ أو قُتِلَتْ، انهارَتْ شِباكُ الأزمنةِ الضيّقةِ التي حَبَكْناها، ووقعَتْ السماءُ التي رفعناها على أعمدةٍ من الرمل والأمل. حين ماتَتْ الحربُ، سقطنا خارجَ الزمن. ولأنّنا لمْ نَمُتْ كان علينا أنْ نَتَعَلَّمَ الحياةَ من جديد. www.alquds.co.uk/%D9%83%D9%8A...

حينَ ماتَتْ الحربُ أو قُتِلَتْ، انهارَتْ شِباكُ الأزمنةِ الضيّقةِ التي حَبَكْناها، ووقعَتْ السماءُ التي رفعناها على أعمدةٍ من الرمل والأمل. حين ماتَتْ الحربُ، سقطنا خارجَ الزمن. ولأنّنا لمْ نَمُتْ كان علينا أنْ نَتَعَلَّمَ الحياةَ من جديد. www.alquds.co.uk/%D9%83%D9%8A...

No such thing as ceasefire with Isra-Hell. It only has two modes: genocide and/or occupation.

Part of our library still stands and now has a view of the sky. What is survival? What is time after 418 days of slaughter? What does it mean to be alive anywhere when Gaza remains in the monsters’ grip and the world hypocrite and complicit in this genocide against humanity?

This is very, very special.

البيتُ قتيلاً هو أيضاً قَتْلٌ جماعيّ حتى لو خلا من ‏سُكَّانه. ‏-محمود درويش ‏وما أكثر ما شهدناه من قتل جماعي، من إبادة مروعة في غزة يصغر حيالها كل رعب

There is no limit to the sadism of the Israeli state. The global community must boycott it in any and all forms. #FreePalestine

The house we lost in the south, was not a house, as much as it was the dream of a house. It was in the making for decades, growing like a tree, rising and falling whichever direction the winds of war blew.

The monsters targeted and injured Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya of the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia. They had killed his eight year old son on Oct 26th.Their depravity and evil have no limits and this despicable world watches in defeating silence.

My “Palestine in Modern Arabic Poetry” class ends with a unit on Arab-American poetry. Today our session was centered @lenakt.bsky.social’s @nationalbook.bsky.social acceptance speech. It was history. It was resistance. It was integrity. It was courage. It was poetry.

Another round of congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social on her National Book Award win in Poetry. We're so proud to call her a contributor, and to share this thread of her work for WWB 🧵 https://buff.ly/48XC1tz

In this interview from "Against Silence," Lena spoke with @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social about her work as a translator and about the history and present of Palestinian literature: https://buff.ly/4fXhPu1

بابنا وسماء الحديقة، ١٩٨٧ جودت فخر الدين

They will never understand how they annihilated us then annihilated us, then annihilated us, and yet could not erase from their mirrors our shining image nor could they erase from our faces that hazy, oblivious light, that pure, radiant smile. -Samer Abu Hawwash arablit.org/2024/10/10/n...

Something looms there beyond these heights. I need a prophet’s tears for sight. Words are the diviner’s, the interpretation mine— They quarrel: one speaks in knots which the other unwinds. -Mohammad Abdelbari, "What Zarqa' al-Yamama Didn't Say"

Let the smells of mint go heady and defenceless Like inmates liberated in that yard. Like the disregarded ones we turned against Because we’d failed them by our disregard. -Seamus Heaney, "Mint"

"Nothing is so dangerous as a news report wherein Palestinians die in the passive voice..." Review of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s “Palestinian,” (translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine), by Ali Al-Jamri. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2024/10/08/r...

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol 26.3, which kicks off with an innovative reading of the Palestinian literary text _Ali_ about a Palestinian fighter with the Communist International fighting against fascism in Spain. By Nevine Abraham. doi.org/10.1080/1475...