The Key | A magazine from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Oct 17, 2026

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Before Freedom

On the photographs of Adam Rouhana

Ahdaf Soueif

Oct 22, 2026

Heba Abu Nada

3 Poems by Heba Abu Nada

The poet and novelist from Gaza was killed by an Israeli air strike on her home nearly 3 years ago. She left a legacy of poems that have gone on to be read around the world.

Oct 11, 2026

Diary from Gaza: A Road That Devours Time

“Why did God bind me to this city if it was destined to disappear in such horror?”

Oct 11, 2026

Rashid Khalidi’s New Introduction To Ghassan Kanafani’s “Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968”

A new, forthcoming translation of a remarkable extended essay from one of Palestine’s most important thinkers and writers.

Oct 8, 2026

The Violence of English

“Let me relish in butchering this language. Let me destroy senses with it. This language destroyed me. Let me keep enemies awake tonight.”

Oct 8, 2026

Journalists in Gaza are Still Living the Headlines

“The war lives with me at home, even when I do not have a notebook, a phone or a deadline for a story.”

Sep 24, 2026

16 New Books on Palestine We’re Excited About This Fall

Mahmoud Khalil’s debut memoir, previously untranslated writing from Ghassan Kanafani, stunning photography and poetry from Palestine and more.

Sep 24, 2026

“I Couldn’t Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The Map

In a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say.

Sep 24, 2026

Diary from Gaza: “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”

“I do not want to be missing, left under the rubble for an eternity or gathered in a black plastic bag – a collection of limbs.”

Sep 11, 2026

OPINION: Why I'm Suing Columbia University for Anti-Palestinian Discrimination

“The more I protested, the more I mourned my people, the more I made myself a target both from the university and bad faith actors allowed on campus.”

Sep 11, 2026

Searching for the Normal in... the Abnormal

“Nothing seems normal in these birth pangs where beginnings and endings play musical chairs.”

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Before Freedom

3 Poems by Heba Abu Nada

Diary from Gaza: A Road That Devours Time

Rashid Khalidi’s New Introduction To Ghassan Kanafani’s “Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968”

The Violence of English

Journalists in Gaza are Still Living the Headlines

16 New Books on Palestine We’re Excited About This Fall

“I Couldn’t Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The Map

Diary from Gaza: “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”

OPINION: Why I'm Suing Columbia University for Anti-Palestinian Discrimination

Searching for the Normal in... the Abnormal

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