As a leader of the student encampment at Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil became a target of both the educational institution’s vicious anti-Palestinian crackdown and the Trump administration’s ICE deportation regime.

No Land to Stand On draws on his detention diaries while also telling his family history.

The debut collection from the 20-year-old poet from Gaza made such an impact after its first publication that it is now being reissued by Penguin.

You can listen to Abu Akleen discuss her work on The PalFest Podcast, and buy the original Tenement Press edition from the PalFest shop.

Rad’s searing critiques of Western media headlines covering Israel’s genocide of Gaza have been viewed millions of times around the world. Here, the scholar dives deeper into these institutions’ active and transparent attempts to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide.

A sweeping history of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, and a look at how they have been silenced and obscured. This book grew out of a trip the Pulitzer Prize-winning author took to Palestine with the 2017 Palestine Festival of Literature.

A collection of poems, essays, and photographs from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States.

Join PalFest on October 16 at the Mosaic Rooms in London, where Fady Joudah will be in conversation with Zena Agha.

A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled bloodshed in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist.

A searing critique of Western liberalism and its complicity with the enduring colonial violence of Zionism. The novel, first published in Australia in 2025, follows a cast of Arab Muslim characters working in media and educational institutions who are forced to choose between conflict and compromise with the mainstream colonial culture.

You can listen to Abdel-Fattah discuss Discipline on The PalFest Podcast. If you’re in London, you can see her live on October 3.

The debut photo book from the Key’s Photo Director, Before Freedom offers an intimate portrait of everyday life in Palestine – capturing both children playing and families picnicking alongside the physical realities of life under military occupation.

A history of Palestinian women’s organizing from 1929 to the present. Noura Erakat praises the book’s “narrative, urgency, and intimacy spanning a century and continents to provide a remarkable history of Palestinian feminism. Elia’s own life in struggle makes this text vibrate.”

Subscribers to the PalFest Bookshelf will receive Falastiniyyat, along with an extra item, as their December shipment.

Writing in the wake of Israel’s devastating territorial expansion in 1967, Kanafani elaborates his theory of resistance literature and offers a visceral account of life under occupation.

Translated into English for the first time, this anthology features a new introduction by Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi.

This new work by the eminent scholar is, in the words of Nadia Abu El-Haj, “a powerful and original reading of the historical and material conditions that made the Gaza genocide possible. An essential read for anyone who wants to understand the unfathomable and spiraling violence of the Israeli state.”

Is this the Berlin novel we’ve all been waiting for?

“Ali, a self-denigrating Catholic and unruly homosexual who immigrated to Berlin almost a decade ago from southern Lebanon, stands accused of assaulting a police officer during a Palestine solidarity demonstration. Caught in a suspended present as he faces possible deportation from Germany, Ali prepares to bid his goodbyes to a city in ebullition,” the book synopsis reads.

An illustrated collection of Palestinian fables made in collaboration between Ferwana, from Gaza, and Sánchez Vegara, an established author. 

“When Maria Isabel began exchanging messages with Nour, she learned how she kept her daughters' spirits alive at bedtime from her tent in Gaza,” per the synopsis.

An urgent political manifesto from the influential and articulate Baconi, What Now presents strategic principles for activists and allies in the struggle to free Palestine.

Subscribe to the PalFest Bookshelf today and you’ll receive the very first copies of What Now ahead of publication in October.

Be among the first to hear from Baconi at PalFest’s London Literature Festival event at the Southbank Centre on October 21.

The first poetry collection from the celebrated playwright “traces the silence living inside history and insists on the enduring beauty of the world.”

In Sara Elkamel’s spare and emotionally direct translation, each poem’s title begins with “enter,” an invitation to fill an empty stage, for a landscape to form.

The highly anticipated new book from two of the most eloquent and powerful advocates for the Palestinian cause working in English today.

Join PalFest in London for Noura and John’s only U.K. book launch event on November 17.