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Sep 11, 2026
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8 min read
“Nothing seems normal in these birth pangs where beginnings and endings play musical chairs.”
Sep 7, 2026
6 min read
Twenty-one years since Israel's disengagement in Gaza; Abdaljawad Omar in The Key; Deena Helm's debut novel as our Book of the Week; and more.
Aug 31, 2026
Remembering Sliman Mansour; Ibtisam Azem's The Sleep Thief on the PalFest Bookshelf; and more in the return of our weekly dispatch.
Jul 30, 2026
14 min read
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
3 min read
“I am no longer an intellectual. My favorite artist is Ms. Rachel.”
1 min read
Five writers on what comes after boycott
“Everyone living in the United States for long risks becoming stupid without a supreme effort to refuse it.”
2 min read
“Though I know I did not stop the genocide, I know that I did not accelerate it either. That is not nothing.”
“Writing becomes both witness and wound”
“The lineage of the repressed, the tradition of the oppressed, is nothing but a series of ongoing attempts to enact unrealized disorders.”
Jul 29, 2026
7 min read
From a forthcoming re-issue of the enduring autobiography
Jul 27, 2026
4 min read
Events in San Francisco, London, and online; Ghassan Zaqtan's latest collection of poetry; and more.
