Mosab Abu Toha, Sarah Aziza, Nick Estes, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Dina Omar, Sagirah Shahid & Danez Smith at Parkway Theater. Presented in partnership with Mizna.
Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, Sarah Hagi, Malcolm Harris, Nicki Kattoura & Ahmad Shokr come together for our first event in Philadelphia.
Join us for our first-ever event in Detroit with Zaina Alsous, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Mohammed el-Kurd, Fred Moten & Kamelya Omayma Youssef.
Join us for a landmark event celebrating the enduring legacy of Edward Said and his seminal work, The Question of Palestine. This event brings together eight key authors to reflect on Said's ideas and their relevance to the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
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Join us at the historic Riverside Church for two conversations with Ta-Nehisi Coates:
• Rabea Eghbariah, Farah Barqawi, Sahar Qawasmi, and Nida Sinnokrot, focusing on the ongoing colonization of Palestine from Gaza to the Galilee, tracing its impact from 1897 to today.
• Noura Erakat and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on thinking beyond the state in the wake of the U.S. presidential election.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Dena Takruri live in conversation on the Struggle for Liberation on October 25th.
The second "Nowhere" post-show talk - this time on solidarity and Palestine in 2024, with Aimee Shalan, Khalid Abdalla and Yasmin El-Rifae.
We’re proud to be partnering with Fuel Theatre and Khalid Abdalla to present to two post-show conversations reflecting on new work, Nowhere. First, The Space of Confinement, with Sanaa Seif, Khalid Abdalla and Yasmin El-Rifae.
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Join us for our second event in Los Angeles where we will be discussing Black-Palestinian solidarity with Robin DG Kelley, Celine Qussiney, Maya Binyam, Adrian Chen, Safia el-Hillo and Amanee Izhaq.
A vital conversation with Reverend Munther Isaac, the internationally respected Palestinian pastor and theologian, and the Palestinian-Iraqi poet, Zena Agha. Venue: EartH, Hackney.
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Join us in London at the SouthBank Centre for our next event - on building new solidarities with Palestine.
This one-off event will feature a discussion of the Fossil Free Books campaign for a genocide, the launch of our new anthology Their Borders Our World, poetry from Jehan Bseiso, music from Kareem Samara, Goat Girl & more.
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On June 17, 2024, McNally Jackson Seaport will host the book launch of Their Borders, Our World.
Edited by PalFest co-curator Mahdi Sabbagh, this anthology brings together twelve highly distinct essays on the international connections running through Palestine and freedom struggles against settler colonialism around the world.
FEATURING
Alessandra Amin, Tareq Baconi, Mahdi Sabbagh & Omer Shah
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ESEA Publishing Network, Tilted Axis Press & Fitzcarraldo Editions present an evening of readings fundraising for direct aid to Palestinian writers and artists displaced in Egypt, in association with PalFest.
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On June 4 at 2220 Arts & Archives we will co-host the second installment of FREEDOM TO WRITE FOR PALESTINE. Featuring artists who have been censored over Palestine, artists who have pulled out of PEN America events in solidarity & more.
FEATURING
Randa Jarrar, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Angela Flournoy, Melissa Barrera, Fariha Roisin, Nick Mandernach, Broti Gupta, Poppy Liu, Arij Mikati & Weyes Blood.
e-flux Architecture wraps their Spring 2024 season with “On the Violence of Architecture,” a lecture by Mabel O. Wilson in conversation with PalFest co-curator Mahdi Sabbagh at e-flux on Thursday, May 30 at 7pm.
The renowned writer, designer and theorist will be reading from and discussing her chapter in PalFest’s upcoming anthology, Their Borders, Our World - edited by Mahdi Sabbagh.
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An open-invitation event to all writers withdrawing from PEN America awards and events.
Join us on May 7th at Judson Memorial Church, Manhattan, to hear from authors rejecting PEN America for their silence on the genocide happening in Palestine today.
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Join us to hear from crucial voices about the ongoing war on Gaza and what we can do to stop it.
Featuring Raymond Antrobus, Omar Barghouti, Morgan Bassichis (JVP-NY), Mohammed El-Kurd, Soweto Kinch, Sabrina Mahfouz, Max Porter, Kamila Shamsie & more still TBC.
An urgent, in person London event to hear from Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta on his experiences as an emergency surgeon in Gaza.
On Wednesday November 1st in Manhattan the Palestine Festival of Literature is staging a free, public event featuring Michelle Alexander, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rashid Khalidi, Noura Erakat, Natalie Diaz, Mohammed El-Kurd, Hamed Sinno and more titled:
But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience
SOLD OUT! ONLINE TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
** Tamim Barghouti — Julie Christie— Esther Freud — Mohammed Hanif —Abdulrazak Gurnah — Rashid Khalidi — Soweto Kinch — Tobias Menzies — Ahdaf Soueif — Matthew Teller — Harriet Walter — Isabel Adomakoh Young **
London, October 27th: Join some of the biggest names of stage and page to mark 75 Years of Ongoing Nakba and steadfast resistance - a night of performance, poetry, music and reflection that will journey through a century of struggle, colonization and insistence on life.
Join Nathan Thrall live in London to hear a gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine and a masterful, epic portrait of life on both sides of Israel’s separation wall.
PalFest 2023 closes with a double event beginning with Budour Hassan in conversation with Maaza Mengiste and Molly Crabapple about the Ethiopian expulsion of Italy and anti-Zionist Jewish resistance to the Nazis. Then Isabella Hammad will chair a conversation between Mohammed el-Kurd and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Please join us at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah for a unique double event that will bring together guest authors from Kashmir and India to discuss Palestine & the Global South followed by the (rescheduled) conversation between Isabella Hammad and Yara Hawari to launch ENTER GHOST.
Join us in Haifa’s Khashabeh Theatre for a night of cinema, poetry and conversation that will start with a kinetic short film, stage Part Two of the Poetry Marathon before coming together in an international discussion about publishing in the 21st century.
Join us at the beautiful Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem for a conversation spanning four generations of Palestinian writing - including the launch of new books by Vera Tamari and Ahed Tamimi.
Join us for the first half of a two-night Poetry Marathon, a screening of Sugarcoated Arsenic and a conversation with Saleem Haddad.
A unique poetry marathon at the Qattan Center in Gaza with live readings by:
Batoul Abu Aqlein
Mariam al-Khatib
Rawan Hussein
Haidar al-Ghazali
Hashem Shaloula
Livestream at : youtube.com/@Palfest/streams
1961 narrative documentary chronicling one night in the lives of young Indigenous men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Screening at Project Hope, Nablus.
An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus.
A meditation on the intimacies between continents, patterns of global migration, and trade. Anchored by a ferry trip from Calais to Dover, the work consists of phone videos taken in Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, France, the UK and the US.
A night in memory and tribute to Salma Khadra Jayyusi, pre-eminent Palestinian poet, critic, translator & editor. Inspired in her writing, unwavering in her politics, a giant in every field she worked in.
