# The Key

> The Key is a new online magazine brought to you by the Palestine Festival of Literature.

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## Posts
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “Hours fell about us like stones” ](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-hours-fell-about-us-like-stones): Events in Birzeit, New York, and online; the newly-republished memoirs of Jean Said Makdisi; and more.
- [Guidelines for Life in a City Howling by the Sea](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/new-poem-mariam-al-khateeb-gaza): A poem by Mariam Al Khateeb
- [مذكّرات طبيب شاهد على الحرب من مشافي غزة](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/genocide-gaza-testimony-doctor-diary-ibrahim-matar-arabic): "سمعت أصوات الفاقدين وهم يصرخون بأقوى ما يقدرون حتى تنجرح حلوقهم"
- [Walid Daqqa Is Still Here](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/walid-daqqa-sanaa-salameh-palestine-prisons-ticket-seller): Sanaa Salameh sits down with The Key to talk about carrying her husband's legacy, the prison movement, and the release of his first major posthumous work, "The Ticket Seller."
- [Palestine at the World Cup: Everywhere and Nowhere](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/world-cup-finals-2026-palestine-gaza-egypt): FIFA and its hosts erased Palestine from the tournament, but fans and players made it impossible to ignore.
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “Miracles and sacrifices, as aching and hidden as time’s cycle”](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-miracles-and-sacrifices-as-aching-and-hidden-as-time-s-cycle): Workshops in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and online; film screenings in New York and London; leena aboutaleb's debut collection; and more.
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “An ever-emerging shared language”](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-an-ever-emerging-shared-language): Zena Agha reflects on Samar Yazbek's Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life from the book's editor; events in London, Los Angeles, and New York; and Hajer Mirwali's recent collection of poetry.
- [Gravitation ](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/maryam-qawwash-poem-gravitation-you-must-live): A poem by Maryam Qawwash
- [Why the Giant of Africa Loves Israel](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/nigeria-israel-palestine-support-polls): How did Nigeria – a country that’s half Muslim – become one of the most pro-Israel nations in the world? The answer lies in oil, the pulpit, a civil war, and a left that no longer exists.
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “To stay with the words”](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-to-stay-with-the-words): Reflections on Samar Yazbek's Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life from the book's editor; events in London and Toronto; a landmark new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights; and a new book by Sami Al-Ajrami.
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “There is only this endless tide” ](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-there-is-only-this-endless-tide): Robin DG Kelley on Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity, a new mixtape to benefit Gaza, events in New York and London, and more.
- [“We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience.” New York’s 92NY Loses Ginsberg Centennial After Authors Withdraw.](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/92ny-israel-palestine-campaign-cancel-nyc-boycott): Artists are refusing to be complicit with US empire and Israeli genocide, and it's redrawing the city's cultural geography.
- [Punishing Protest as Terrorism](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-action-verdict-protest-elbit-systems-terrorism-uk): The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “This devastation writes our world”](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-this-devastation-writes-our-world): An excerpt from the current PalFest Bookshelf selection – plus, benefit events in New York and London, video art in Birzeit, and a graphic novel as our book of the week.
- [The Weekly Dispatch: Kholoud Hammad and Ammiel Alcalay’s urgent collaboration between Gaza and New York launches this week](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/imperial-abhorrences-is-book-of-the-week-queer-cinema-for-palestine-global-scree): Plus Queer Cinema for Palestine 4th Edition announced, photographs of life in Jerusalem’s Old City, your media roundup & more
- [How (Not) To Cope](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-hashem-beck-lebanon-israel-ceasefire): A poet lives through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar.
- [Photo Essay: The Erasure of Palestine](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/photo-essay-the-erasure-of-palestine-ahmed-al-bazz): “These images are an effort to unify these different stages of our erasure, across all of historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.”
- [Prisoner Profiles: Umer Khalid](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/prisoner-profile-umer-khalid-brize-norton): The research director of CAGE International writes about his imprisoned friend
- [Two New Poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/two-new-poems-by-lena-khalaf-tuffaha)
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “Soft waves of home, sob for me.”](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-soft-waves-of-home-sob-for-me): Commemorating the Naksa 59 years on, a new episode of the PalFest Podcast featuring Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar, and events across the UK – plus, Homosexual Intifada is book of the week.
- [The Weekly Dispatch: “Survival became our only watchword”](https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-weekly-dispatch-survival-became-our-only-watchword): Upcoming events in New York, London, and online and Ahmed Nabil's Hidden Companions is Book of the Week