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28 Oct 2024
BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people.
This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history.
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Zeina Hashem Beck writes, in this stirring piece from Issue 007 of The Key, about how Israel's assault on Lebanon ripples across space and time.
Read it here: thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-ha…
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Issue 007 of THE KEY is live now with:
- A photo essay from Ahmed al-Bazz on the erasure of Palestine.
- 2 new poems from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
- A profile of political prisoner, Umer Khalid.
- A poem from Zena Hashem Beck on living through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar.
thekeymagazine.com/
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Jun 4
We're honored to publish two new poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, both entitled "Otherwise" "The onslaught is the onslaught and has no time to spare. Bodies decomposing lace November with their own metallic signatures."
thekeymagazine.com/p/two-new…
Two New Poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
June 2026 | With an introduction by the poet
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Jun 4
We are excited to publish this photo essay by Nablus-based photographer Ahmad Al-Bazz, which includes selected images from his new book, "The Erasure of Palestine"
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Jun 4
We have Asim Qureshi of @CAGEintl with an intimate portrait of Umer Khalid, one of the Brize Norton 5, jailed in the UK for pro-Palestine activism
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Jun 4
Zeina Hashem Beck writes for The Key about the paralysis and grief of watching Israel bomb Lebanon from afar.
"You’re supposed to meet L. You’re supposed to meet Z. But the word 'Beirut' flashes on your phones again, and none of you is able to move."
thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-ha…
How (Not) To Cope
A poet lives through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar.
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London, join us on Thursday evening to mark the publication of two important new books:
YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE
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VOICES OF RESISTANCE
6pm at Ibraaz. Tickets are free but registration is required.
palfest.org/full-schedule/yo…
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Amazing lineup. Do go if you can.
London, join us on Thursday evening to mark the publication of two important new books:
YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE
&
VOICES OF RESISTANCE
6pm at Ibraaz. Tickets are free but registration is required.
palfest.org/full-schedule/yo…
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Just saw news of this event in the latest @PalFest newsletter (always a must-read). If you're in London, definitely try to get there. To see any one of these women on their own (Yasmin El-Rifae Samar Yazbek Leri Price Sondos Sabra) would be amazing.
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London, join us on May 27th to hear from Molly Crabapple about her instant bestseller: HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY.
For this London launch she will be in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum.
Tickets available now: palfest.org/full-schedule/he…
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You can still sign up to the PalFest Bookshelf and receive a copy of the book an exclusive artwork postcard designed by @mollycrabapple.
Available to new subscribers until the end of May.
palfest.org/bookshelf
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May 18
Why aren’t these stories worthy of media coverage? Why is Israel’s killing of Palestinians so normalized?
May 17
Breaking🚨: Kareem Nassar was killed by Israel less than 24 hours after his wedding in an airstrike on Gaza City.
I don’t have words anymore. I can’t even bear it. 💔
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May 18
Looking forward to this event on independent media and Arab public sphere featuring media producers from across the region including Mada Masr, Megaphone, Al-Jumhuriya, Sowt, Alhudood, Khateera and Jummar. 21 May, 6pm, SOAS London. Register: soas.ac.uk/about/event/indep…
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Just us at the @southbankcentre on May 27 for the London launch of @mollycrabapple's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY.
Here, Molly speaks of how visiting Palestine was the impetus that drove her to write her this book, excavating a history of radical Jewish politics in the early 20th century that refused the racist and colonial ideology of Zionism.
Molly will be in conversation with the acclaimed scholar, translator, and educator Hazem Jamjoum.
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great conversation with @sarayasin, the editor in chief of The Key (@PalFest), about leaving legacy media and the dynamics of trying to reform an institution. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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New on the PalFest Podcast:
Tareq Baconi & Saleem Haddad in conversation on memoir and fiction, politics and intimacy, exile and return.
Focusing on their latest books - Baconi’s Fire in Every Direction and Haddad’s Floodlines - they explore how personal narrative and imaginative storytelling convey the lived experience of displacement, desire, and belonging.
youtube.com/watch?v=EhgxM4HX…
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May 15
In Jerusalem, nuns have to be escorted by members of the volunteer group Standing Together to protect them against Israeli settlers.
Yes, nuns need protection against Israeli settlers...
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