To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza. Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection. Please watch and share widely. youtube.com/watch?v=mHunLNYShWI&feature=youtu.be

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza. Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection. Please watch and share widely. youtube.com/watch?v=mHunLNYShWI&feature=youtu.be

Watch on Instagram: Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her groundbreaking debut collection, 48kg. Filmed just a few days ago by Ahmed Al Danaf and edited by Adam Yihia. Gaza is once again under intense bombardment and nobody is safe. www.instagram.com/reel/DO5pJky...

By popular demand: gift subscriptions to the PalFest Bookshelf are now available! Want to send your loved one a subscription? All you need is their email address and country of residence – we ship worldwide. Check the PalFest Bookshelf on our website for more information (www.palfest.org)

BREAKING: hundreds of artists and labels announce their refusal to let their music be streamed from Israel. Sign up here: www.nomusicforgenocide.net Share here: www.instagram.com/p/DOvwFB4glp0/

New York - a major collection of writers are coming together this Saturday September 21 for VOICES FOR GAZA at the Town Hall. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.

Join an evening of solidarity and song hosted by the Blend choir and Wildworks, From West Cornwall to the West Bank. All money raised through ticket and drinks sales and additional donations will be donated to Project Hope, Nablus. www.tickettailor.com/events/wildw...

Book of the Week: After Savagery Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. After Savagery publishes later this month. You can preorder the book in our Bookshop (US / UK). Links are below.

Watch now: Eileen Myles reads 38kg, by Batool Abu Akleen. You can get the book from the PalFest Bookshelf, subscribe here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf

Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...

@palfest.bsky.social has amazing recommendations on Palestinian writing.

Max Porter called 48kg "one of the most viscerally affecting collections of poems I have ever read ... No human should have to write their poetry from inside death's dominion, but Batool Abu Akleen has done it and the result is truly astonishing." 48kg is available on the PalFest Bookshelf.

@palfest.bsky.social Thank you ☺️

Some organisations you might consider donating to in support of Palestinian people: @medicalaidpal.bsky.social @msf.ca (the global one) @amostrust.bsky.social @palfest.bsky.social

Batool Abu Akleen is a Palestinian poet and translator from Gaza City. This poem is from her debut poetry collection, 48kg, just published by Tenement Press and currently on the PalFest Bookshelf.  Max Porter called 48kg "one of the most viscerally affecting collections of poems I have ever read."

On the PalFest Bookshelf for August & September are two short, powerful books. 48kg is the debut poetry collection from Batool Abu Akleen. Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine by Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox & Rafeef Ziadah. Learn more & sign up here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf

palfest This week's book of the week is WE HAD MANSIONS, a luminous and unflinching debut by queer Palestinian Appalachian poet and journalist Mandy Shunnarah, published last month by @diodeeditions.bsky.social. Get your copy of WE HAD MANSIONS from the good folks at Diode Editions.

Batool Abu Akleen’s 48Kg. is now available in a bi-lingual Arabic & English edition from Tenement Press. It's one of our selections for the PalFest Bookshelf for August and September. The collection is made up of forty eight poems, each accounting for a single kilogram. www.palfest.org/bookshelf

This week's Book of the Week is ROCK FLIGHT by Hasib Hourani, a book-length poem that follows a personal and historical narrative impelled by the violent occupation of Palestine. Hasib Hourani’s rock flight is out now. You can get your copy on our Bookshop (US / UK). Links in replies.

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia, ❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

Update: The publication date is pushed back to September 4th but Comma Press is taking pre-orders.

This week's Book of the Week is PALESTINE -1, edited by Basma Ghalayini and published this week by Comma Press. You can learn more and get it here: commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

The Palestine Festival of Literature is looking for a new designer to join our team. Applicants must be bilingual in Arabic and English and able to produce both separate and linguistically integrated designs. Apply here: forms.gle/jeC7VGPofRjA...

This week's Book of the Week is Ghayath Almadhoun's I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND, translated by Catherine Cobham and published by @actionbooks.bsky.social (US) and Divided Publishing (UK).

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, has been longlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards. You can get it now from our PalFest Bookshelf, here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf

A comic made by two young Gazans, Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa El-Banna, from their tents in Deir Al-Balah, reflecting their experience during the genocidal war on Gaza. All proceeds from this zine will support them. cartoonistsforpalestine.org/world

London, November 1st: Isabella Hammad & Mirza Waheed will come together for a unique discussion about Palestine, Kashmir and the parallels and divergences in their modern struggles with colonialism. Our co-presented event in the 2025 London Lit Fest at the Southbank www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

Book of the week: I'll Tell You When I'm Home. The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her family’s exile and displacement.

Read Letter from the Genocide, by Haidar Al-Ghazali. إقرأ رسالة من الإبادة للكاتب حيدر الغزالي. www.palfest.org/haidar-ghaza...

Read, "A Voice That Defied Silence: The Legacy of Dr. Refaat Al-Areer," by his student, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi. "I memorized his words as one would memorize poetry, taking notes on his comments, listening carefully to his tone..." themarkaz.org/a-voice-that...

Poppy Liu reads “A poem joins the resistance” from the new anthology of Palestinian poetry, Heaven Looks Like Us - the book on the PalFest Bookshelf. Get your copy, along with the healthcare issue of the New York War Crimes newspaper, by subscribing at palfest.org/bookshelf before the end of July.

You can sign up for the weekly @palfest.bsky.social dispatch -- always including worthwhile poetry, essays, events & more: www.palfest.org/newsletter?s...

Again, this is something we learned about from the weekly @palfest.bsky.social email; sign up here: t.co/bnW4gJM9Jd

Heaven Looks Like Us is a Palestinian poetry anthology addressing exile, violence, and grief, but also showcasing queer, feminist, eco-poetic, and love-themed works alongside protest poetry. Get it from PalFest Bookshelf here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf?ss...

Fitzcarraldo Editions is set to publish Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza, a work of oral history collating the testimonies of civilians injured in Gaza 👇

TODAY is Pub Day for Batool Abu Akleen's 48KG, tr. various, and the poetry pamphlet she edited & translated for @mptmagazine.bsky.social, SEA SHELLS. Order 48Kg from Tenement Press: tenementpress.com/Batool-Abu-A... And read SEA SHELLS free online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/sea-shells-a...

Join Taylor & Co. Books on Tuesday, June 17 for a fundraiser screening of Farah Nabulsi's powerful short film The Present, starring Saleh Bakri and focusing on the brutality of Israel’s checkpoint system. Learn more here: www.taylorcobooks.com/s/stories

‘Birthday in a Cellar’: New Short Fiction “Birthday in a Cellar” appears in Amer Al-Masry’s third short-story collection, The Man Who Turned Back (الرجل الذي التفت إلى الوراء), the first book out from the new Gaza Publications.

It's our honour to present a new poem by Hassan Al-Bawwab - who under the most difficult possible circumstances in Gaza has continued to produce new work. Read the poem on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DKuEQacIQh...

This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the anti-colonial struggle in Palestine. Thank you for including it in the PalFest! Can’t wait for the next book.

When speaking more than one language becomes a means of navigation, how are linguistic hierarchies shaped by power dynamics? How does embodying them reshape our understanding of frontiers and displacement? London: Language: No Broblem, 13-17 June Learn more here: www.shubbak.co.uk/language-no-...

We are excited to share the third instalment of the PalFest Bookshelf: Heaven Looks Like Us, edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi, published by Haymarket Books. Learn more here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf?fb...

Rosie Warren from PalFest interviews Jamjoum, in which he situates this book within Kanafani’s life and his broader political imagination. With this book, Jamjoum argues, Kanafani attempts to write a materialist history of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Read: mondoweiss.net/2025/05/inte...

London: William Blake in Words and Song, Raising Funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. All ticket revenue and donations collected via the online fundraiser campaign and at the event go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-golden-s...

Join Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) for No Pride in Genocide, a global film event in June 2025, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and 100+ partners in 30+ countries. Link: queercinemaforpalestine.org/2025/05/22/q...

Join Gaza Artists and Digital Connection, a virtual tour: “This Is Not an Exhibition,” led by Amer Shomali. Wednesday, 21 May, 17:00-18:00 Location: online - events.ringcentral.com/events/pdaf-... Language: Arabic

More #PalFest book mail, every quarter I get a Palestinian book and the email newsletter is incredible (+free!). Grabbed home grown magic from rave reviews 🌈 I don't normally buy books unless I've read first. #BookMail #PalestinianBooks #QueerBooks

ART OF THE PALESTINIAN POSTER is a new show opening at London's P21 Gallery next week bringing together multiple generations of Palestinian and Arab artists. Link: www.shubbak.co.uk/art-of-the-p...

PalArt Collective has partnered with Shubbak Festival - the UK's premier festival of contemporary Arab Culture - to present the PalArt Festival, a week of Palestinian theatre, comedy, and dance that celebrates resilience, creativity, & culture. Learn more: www.palartcollective.co.uk/palart-festi...