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Sharif Abdel Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس@sharifkouddous
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"These are the substances of political living that we are fighting not to lose"—Read this piece by Mada Masr chief editor @Linaattalah 2 days ahead of her trial, where she faces up to a year in prison as authorities in Egypt move to quash independent media
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BRITTLE PAPER@brittlepaper
Nov 5
The first biography of Sudanese writer and inaugural Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela is here! Bhakti Shringarpure's LEILA ABOULELA: WRITING AS REFUGE traces her life from Khartoum to Scotland, and launches at SOAS in London on November 10! 📚 brittlepaper.com/2026/11/bhakti…
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Publishers for Palestine@pubforpalestine
Nov 5
🔗Save the link.

The fourth global 24-hour reading for Palestine, at the start of #ReadPalestineWeek, coming soon, hosted by @pamenarpress:
youtube.com/watch?v=ew6Jld…
🔗Save the link. The fourth global 24-hour reading for Palestine, at the start of #ReadPalestineWeek, coming soon, hosted by @pamenarpress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6Jldz60p0
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Nov 5
Great news though sickening to know that California has the highest number of people on death row in the U.S.
cbc.ca/news/world/cal…
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Nov 4
Hypocrisy and racism much⁉️ Goncourt prize given to Philippe Janaeda who admits to using AI even though they disqualified Haitian writer Thelyson Orélien only weeks ago for allegedly using AI.
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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Furkan Gözükara
@FurkanGozukara
Nov 2
El-Sayed on a Palestinian homeland: "Only on Gaza and the West Bank? ... the parts that have been like now annihilated, and the parts that are being encroached upon by settlers? ... It's like, 'Hey, listen, after I eat, then you can have my seconds.'"
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darryl li@dcli
Nov 2
new essay in saq on the open letter genre — its stakes, it dynamics, its occasional silliness — in the shadow of genocide

open access link: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic…
Darryl Li A Theory of Open Letters: Notes on the Politics of a Genre Open letters are a curious genre, especially as an attempt to engage in politics. These epistles are open in two senses: First, they are meant to circulate among and elicit engagement from some kind of public beyond any named addressees. While they may take the form of a bilateral communicative encounter between two interlocutory positions (whether they are composed of single individuals or groups is immaterial), they are intended to be “overheard” by others. ...The realm of appearance (to borrow Arendt’s phrase) or the sphere of the sensible (à la Rancière) both point to a paradox of the open letter that needs to be thought through in relation to material conditions. We are talking about a public, and hence the open letter tends to make its appearance in professions of publicity, an affliction of occupations in which value is derived through reputation produced in public circulation and indexed to individualized notions of achievement, creativity, genius, flair: the arts, academia, science, journalism, sports. Yet this individuality often exists in great tension with the open letter’s collective voice. This can make the process of crafting open letters and debating them quite tedious or even exasperating, as all manner of objections are raised to tone, structure, wording, and the like. ... Accordingly, open letters are often the product of an atypical and perhaps unusually estranged relation to one’s written expression.
As for the open letter genre, what makes Palestine distinctive is not the nature or extent of atrocity to be denounced, but the misfortune of being colonized by a movement that enjoys widespread support and sympathy within the academic milieu of the United States. ... And insofar as this essay was produced largely in response to conditions in that context, it is no coincidence that Palestine is the exemplary case. (In other contexts, agreement about Palestine may be so widespread that it does not strain these fault lines.) To speak of Palestine here is often to invite and incite dispute. To speak of Palestine is to take a stance, to assume risk, to potentially join a cause or ...... even a movement. Under these conditions, the tension between the different values invoked in open letters becomes particularly fraught, and the strains activate all the tendencies of professional deformation. Wielding an open letter in the face of genocide is the height of absurdity, and yet it is precisely this apparent triviality that renders refusals, prevarications, and attacks all the more egregious and all the more revealing. Palestine brings out the worst and the best in the open letter form, just as it brings out the worst and the best in so many of us.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social@WARSCAPES
Oct 31
Journacide, Mediacide and the Assault on Truth
Our two recent livestreams focus on the news media industry, and the ways in which genocide in Palestine has exposed a collapse of journalistic ethics.

open.substack.com/pub/radicalboo…
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Oct 30
Bhakti Shringarpure and Madhuri Sastry take a close look at the report “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Now on YouTube

youtube.com/watch?v=aM6Dun…
Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social@WARSCAPES
Oct 30
Debrief --> Join Bhakti Shringarpure & Madhuri Sastry for a discussion about Francesca Albanese's brilliant report on Palestine and "mediacide."
12pm New York -- Watch it Live here👇🏾 radicalbookscollective.com
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Oct 30
Debrief --> Join Bhakti Shringarpure & Madhuri Sastry for a discussion about Francesca Albanese's brilliant report on Palestine and "mediacide."
12pm New York -- Watch it Live here👇🏾 radicalbookscollective.com
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Oct 30
MACKLEMORE and friends take Paris❤️‍🔥🇵🇸 Thank you @macklemore for this extraordinary Free Palestine tour ❤️🇵🇸
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social@arablit
Oct 27
The best of us.
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Oct 28
November book club is creeping up! Join Bhakti Shringarpure for a conversation with Sahra Noor on Nov 15th about her gorgeous memoir Salt in the Snow. But first buy your copy @catalyst_press

radicalbookscollective.com/p/nov-15-2026-…
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Catalyst Press@catalyst_press
Sep 4
Read our Q&A with Sahra Noor, author of Salt in the Snow: A Somali Immigrant Story.

Read the full article here: catalystpress.org/blog-posts/qa-…

Buy the book here: catalystpress.org/all-content/sa…

#catalystpress #authorinterview #sahranoor #saltinthesnow
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Fady Joudah@FadyJoudah
Oct 26
Towards a more serious reading of Palestinan literature
@LAReviewofBooks

lareviewofbooks.org/article/ghassa…
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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
@FranceskAlbs
Oct 25
📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out

🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/c…

🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET

Livestream details will follow.
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Oct 26
This was an incredible conversation with @sean_murray1 about his documentary Journacide: The War on Truth that investigates Israel's slaughter of journalists in Gaza and Lebanon.
youtube.com/live/i5gRvVX-p…
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Oct 25
Film club is live now!
youtube.com/watch?v=i5gRvV…
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Oct 23
Filmmaker @sean_murray1 and historian Sherry Zane discuss Murray’s documentary Journacide: The War on Truth alongside Ireland’s long history of solidarity with Palestine. Join online on Sunday, Oct 25th

youtube.com/live/i5gRvVX-p…
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Kholood Khair@KholoodKhair
Oct 24
This is the single biggest story in #Sudan right now and it's not getting anywhere near enough attention

Sudan faces the Four Horsemen: War, Famine, Death and Conquest - in an apocalyptic spiral while authorities deny the issues & global response budgets shrink.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Nafisa Eltahir@nafisaeltahir
Oct 23
🚨Just as some #Sudan farmers try to plant after fighting moves on, El Nino is pummeling them with the worst drought in decades.

WFP projects more than 1mln people will enter severe hunger as a result, and is unlikely to be able to help them.

Our story: reuters.com/world/new-fami…
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Palestine Festival of Literature@PalFest
Oct 23
We hosted a landmark conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tareq Baconi and Nesrine Malik at London's Southbank Centre this week.

You can watch the whole event here: youtube.com/watch?v=652EVC…
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