Yale students overwhelmingly pass divestment from Israel

“The bullet goes right by you / a dove shakes the stars from its wings / casting peace upon your darkened way.” Read “The bullet,” a poem by Sahar Rabah, translated from Arabic by Ammiel Alclay. https://buff.ly/49DbWjR

Thrilled to see Egypt + 100 (Ed. @ahmednaji.bsky.social) feature in World Literature Today's notable translations of 2024 alongside so many great works! 📙Get Egypt + 100 here commapress.co.uk/books/egypt-... Check out the full list 👇 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

Finally, Radwa Ashour's complete Granada trilogy is available in Kay Heikkenen's English translation. Today on ArabLit, authors, translators, & scholars reflect: arablit.org/2024/12/10/a...

الليلة ليلة هنا وسرور.. وكوبايات وصواني بتدور #سوريا

We are likely to see Saydnaya prison liberated soon from the Assad regime. Between 2011 and 2015 alone the Assad regime hanged as many as 13,000 civilians in Saydnaya prison. Some of the worst horrors committed by the regime have been in Saydnaya.

Detainees since 2011, since the beginning of the #Syrian revolution, they were in #Suwayda prison, they were released today

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

It's a year today since Dr Refaat Alareer was assassinated UCL (where he did his masters) management still hasn't mentioned his name once Vigil today to remember him UCL Quad at 3pm 💐

‘Refaat no murió, se multiplicó!’ (Refaat did not die, he multiplied!) Susan Abulhawa remembers Refaat Alareer in LitHub lithub.com/susan-abulha...

"God willing us, we will continue to publish and print, no matter how difficult the circumstances we are living today. We will continue." [Photos of the beautiful, beloved bookshop that Mansour rebuilt in 2022 before Israel destroyed it yet again www.palestinechronicle.com/in-photos-ga... ]

Looking forward to being part of this #London event with Mona Chalabi on Monday 16 December to promote the new #VisualizingPalestine book. Moderated by Hazem Jamjoum & chaired by Lama Tawakkol www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-story...

Banipal Translation Prize Announces 2024’s 6-book Shortlist arablit.org/2024/12/02/b...

REVEALED: Drop Site News has uncovered that Israel has now contracted private companies specializing in settler construction to work in northern Gaza. Younis Tirawi reports for @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-pr...

Can’t put this book down 🤩 so happy I’ll be seeing Leila in @nclanews.bsky.social soon 🥳

Loved every episode of this podcast ❤️

“Phenomenal things are happening in battle because of the [Amazon-provided] Nimbus public cloud," said the head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate in February. Amazon is complicit. This Black Friday, not a dime for genocide. Sign up now: https://buff.ly/4g31R1t.

More about these books forthcoming in December 2024 at arablit.org -- also, we'll have an excerpt of the wild, satiric Palestinian novel Sand-Catcher on Pub Day, Dec. 3.

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

Among the de-listed names are those of deceased individuals, such as Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Abdullah Mohamed Morsi. @thenewarab.bsky.social

Thanks to Fitzcarraldo for sending me the new edition of Edward Said's The Question of Palestine. Great to see this classic reissued at an important time, with Said's later essay on the one-state solution and new preface by the excellent Saree Makdisi.

The Western media conspired to cover up Israel's genocidal intentions from the beginning. The Israeli state said it was going to do. The Western media lied to you about it. Launching my new Substack with the facts. Subscribe here 👇 owenjonesjourno.substack.com/p/exposed-ho...

Progressive International - a global alliance of activists, leaders, and organisations advocating for social justice - has unveiled the Watermelon Index, a live database exposing over 400 UK companies allegedly linked to Israel's war on Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian territories ⬇

“This is a watershed event in the history of international justice. The ICC has never, in over 21 years, indicted a pro-Western official. Indeed, no international court since World War II has done so." Our story on the ICC warrant just issued for Netanyahu: www.dropsitenews.com/p/icc-netany...

Now that the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu for war crimes while the ICJ issued a series of provisional measures Israel is ignoring as it faces charges of genocide, every country must do all it can to end this war ASAP. First and foremost, that means a full arms embargo.

أعلى رأس في السلطة لا يريد حرية علاء عبد الفتاح

Palestinian and Irish lawyers take Keir Starmer to court over arming Israel. Watch on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQDs...

MANCHESTER WINTER BOOK FAIR 🎄📚 📅Nov 23 📍 House of Books and Friends, MCR On the subject of Northern publishing - come by House of Books and Friends in Manchester this Saturday, chat with us and pick up some indie books for Xmas 🎁 Free entry but RSVP here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

📺MODERN FOLKLORE SHORT STORY COURSE 📅Starts Jan 13 📍Online Via Zoom 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-fol... Learn the art of dark fiction with author Matt Wesolowski, explore folk storytelling old & new, & have your work published in a Comma eBook. 🎫Bursaries available ✉️[email protected]

As the UK continues to provide military equipment to Israel, David Lammy pretends to parliament that -- "We have the most robust [arms] export licensing regime in the world". #DCUKparliament

“The lives of political prisoners of the Middle East are traded like currency in the Western political bazaar.” On the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, I wrote for The Markaz Review. themarkaz.org/liberation-c...

"we will continue to stare into our killers’ eyes. We will anchor our gaze in their souls. We will inhabit their nightmares." ‏"سنظلّ نُحدّقُ في عيون قاتلنا ‏سننشبُ نظراتنا في روحهِ ‏سنقيمُ في كوابيسهِ ‏" from a poem by Samer Abu Hawwash @samerabuhawash on twittXr see link below...

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Beautiful. Although not the November I’m muddling through. open.spotify.com/track/0man6I...

And miles to go before I sleep…

Last night outside the Giller Prize gala, authors and book workers protested the organization’s ties to genocide and apartheid.

Which is always bad news for the 120 million people of Egypt.

I tied my curly hair back, wore a new coat, showed up late and dodged a (conversational) bullet! 💃🏻

Today is British-Egyptian activist and coder Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd birthday—his eleventh behind bars. EFF continues to call for his immediate release and urges the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to issue its opinion on his incarceration www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

“Bleak and dystopian” Shabna Begum of the Runnymede Trust talks on the occasion of the publication of important new report on UK Islamophobia www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

While we are contemplating the significance of Ukraine gaining the ability to strike inside Russia, Israel has yet again bombed central Beirut, less than 10 minutes walk to the Lebanese parliament, UNESCWA, and even the British Embassy This is the equivalent of bombing Whitehall

A German architecture foundation has rescinded one of its €10,000 (£8,360) awards from a British artist over an open letter he signed promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. *The prize is named after a Nazi architect www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

This morning, Facebook reminded me that today is Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s 43rd birthday—13 of those years spent in prison, with only a few fleeting months of freedom. His mother has been on hunger strike for over a month now. Freedom for Alaa Abd El-Fattah. #freealaa

She waited patiently while I fumbled with the mobile. Such grace 🥹

The ecocide and genocide in Gaza embody eco-apartheid, a violent, racialized expansion of colonial land grabs and resource plunder that enriches a privileged few at the expense of the majority. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/pale..

In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a poem by an imprisoned writer, translated by an imprisoned writer. By Kerima Lorena Tariman, translated from Filipino by Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis

Horrendous scenes from Mar Elias in Beirut following Israeli attacks. Israel continues to attack Lebanon with impunity. The political will to end its destruction and devastation for Palestinians in Gaza, and in Lebanon, is seemingly non existent. www.instagram.com/reel/DCe0jOD...