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sugas6thtooth Β· 11 months ago
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Remember Hind. Remember Reem. Remember all the little boys and girls who are more than mere numbers. They are dreams, humanity's innocence, and most importantly they are not to be forgotten.
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battyaboutbooksreviews Β· 7 months ago
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πŸ‰ Queer Palestinian Books for Pride Month πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
πŸ‰ Want to add a bit more diversity to your TBR? Consider reading one of these queer books by Palestinian authors for Pride Month!
πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Fiction πŸ‰ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher πŸ‰ You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat πŸ‰ Belladonna - Anbara Salam πŸ‰ A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar πŸ‰ Muneera and the Moon - πŸ‰ Guapa - Saleem Haddad πŸ‰ The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose πŸ‰ The Philistine - Leila Marshy πŸ‰ Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam πŸ‰ From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman
πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Graphic Novels πŸ‰ Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata πŸ‰ Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger πŸ‰ Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas πŸ‰ Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata πŸ‰ My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad πŸ‰ Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh
πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Non-Fiction/Memoirs πŸ‰ Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah πŸ‰ Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar πŸ‰ This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan πŸ‰ Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya πŸ‰ Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan πŸ‰ Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Poetry πŸ‰ To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha πŸ‰ The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq πŸ‰ Birthright - George Abraham πŸ‰ The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan πŸ‰ Blood Orange - Yaffa AS πŸ‰ Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi πŸ‰ Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi πŸ‰ Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo
πŸ‰ None of us are free until all of us are free. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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sapphic-sprite Β· 11 months ago
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Something that I’m passionate about is public libraries because of all the support and resources that they provide to their local communities. I know I’ve probably spoken on here before about how important it is to get a library card and use it because of all the perks it can give you (such as free access to online books, movies, and such). For those who are lower class it can provide them with programs, free wifi, free computer use, etc… Public libraries are just so overwhelmingly good for everyone.
In terms of the Global strike, I would like to suggest that people go to their libraries and recommend different Palestinian books. I’m not sure if it differs per state/per library on how you recommend a book, but I know if you use the Libby app through your library card that you can recommend books by tagging them β€œNotify me”. I know my library system is quite different as it branches out statewide and so I have access to statewide books. I would suggest filling out the forms that come up to recommend a book or talking to a librarian over the phone if you notice they are missing a Palestinian book that you would like to read.
Here is a list of Palestinian nonfiction books that I’ve found:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
Except for Palestine by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
This Arab is Queer by Elias Jahshan
Blood Orange by Yaffa AS
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y Davis
The Hundreds Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Here is a list of Palestinian fiction books that I’ve found:
Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger
Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat
Something More by Jackie Khalilieh
Muneera and the Moon by Sonia Sulaiman
I haven’t been reading a lot lately because of my health, but a lot of these came recommended from people I trust to give good recommendations. Feel free to add recommendations in the comments and please contact your local libraries about acquiring the books you see here that they don’t have!
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swordandboardllc Β· 1 year ago
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Palestinian Own Voices Reading List
If you’re looking for books to read to help support Palestine and Palestinians through this current aggression and genocidal actions, I’ve created a list for you to look through. These books are all available through Bookshop.org, and may be available through your local libraries.
My Father Was A Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, by Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape, by Raja Shehadeh
In the Presence of Absence, by Richard Widerkehr
On Zionist Literature, by Ghassan Kanafani
Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, by Sonia Nimir
Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine, by Mohammad Sabaaneh
Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine, by Samer Al-Saber
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank, by Kareem Rabie
Rifqa, by Mohammed El-Kurd
Of Noble Origins: A Palestinian Novel, by Sahar Khalifeh
My First and Only Love, by Sahar Khalifeh
Salt Houses, by Hala Alyan
L.J. Stanton
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gabibookworm Β· 9 months ago
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Here are some fiction books by Palestinian authors about Palestinian characters that I've read and enjoyed! Whether it's about living under the occupation or teenage diaspora falling in love, it's important to support Palestinian authors and read their stories, especially as attempts at censorship increase Let me know if you have any recs for me to add to my tbr!
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aroaessidhe Β· 6 months ago
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2024 reads / storygraph
Thyme Travellers
an anthology of speculative short stories by diaspora Palestinian authors
a variety of narratives imagining Palestine in past, present, and future, with significant themes of memory, identity, and resistance
includes: an Australian woman who decides to dig to Palestine, a haunting story about a group of Gazan boys swimming at night, a family discovering their grandmothers secrets in her memories after she dies, a girl from the west bank who has to do a quest as a spirit to get back to her body, an astronaut who returns to Gaza and finds he still has a chance to go to space, time travel, aliens, and more
arc from netgalley, out sep 5
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anarchist-bean Β· 9 months ago
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πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ Resources & More
NOTE: Please go follow OP’s of these lists and show them support. ❀️
Palestine Masterpost-Masterpost - @maraschino-fairy
Palestine Resources Masterpost - @rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world
The Big Damn List of Stuff They Said You Didn’t Know - @hussyknee
17/12/23 this masterlist has been completely, vetted, revamped and reformatted with free access to all reading and viewing material. It will be updated and edited periodically so please try and reblog the original post if you're able.
Palestine Masterlist - @palipunk
Petition & Education List - @baby-you-can-chive-my-car-burger
Giant Palestine Google Doc & KOSA Masterlist - @randomthoughtswhileeatingdonuts
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ohmuqueen Β· 1 year ago
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@sulfurcosmos I wanted to tag you in a post to spread awareness to the very helpful list of resources to help Palestine you put together, and tell you I bought two of the books from your Palestinian literature reading list at the bookstore yesterday (I looked for several, these are two I was able to find in stock at the store that day). I am going to begin reading Khalidi’s book today. I just want to tell you your hard work bringing awareness to this genocide and helping to educate others is appreciated. I hope this new year treats you well πŸ’›
The books in the picture above are:
(Left) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
(Right) Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
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notyourtoday Β· 10 months ago
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I Was a Target of Academic Censorship Over My Work on Palestine - DAWN
"Censorship is creeping through academic institutions in Europe over expressions of support for Palestine and legitimate critiques of Israel and Zionism, following familiar trends in the United States."
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sugas6thtooth Β· 1 year ago
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battyaboutbooksreviews Β· 23 days ago
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πŸ‰ Books for Read Palestine Week 2024 [ Nov 29 - Dec 5 ]
✨ This guide will no doubt get hidden, given the topic, so please help me by sharing this!
❓What are you reading this week?
πŸ‰ Educate and empathize! Here are 82 books you can read for Read Palestine Week! I've included 26 queer books for those of you who #readqueerallyear as well. Please read these books to learn more about the Palestinian experience. Shukran (thank you)!
✨ Poetry πŸ‰ Enemy of the Sun - (ed) Edmund Ghareeb and Naseer Aruri πŸ‰ A Mountainous Journey - Fadwa Tuqan πŸ‰ So What - Taha Muhammad Ali πŸ‰ Affiliation - Mira Mattar πŸ‰ The Butterfly's Burden - Mahmoud Darwish πŸ‰ Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite - Suheir Hammad πŸ‰ Breaking Poems - Suheir Hammad πŸ‰ In the Presence of Absence - Mahmoud Darwish πŸ‰ Rifqa - Mohammed el-Kurd πŸ‰ My Voice Sought the Wind - Susan Abulhawa πŸ‰ Blood Orange - Yaffa πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Before the Next Bomb Drops - Remi Kanazi πŸ‰ Birthright - George Abraham πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Tent Generations - Various πŸ‰ Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Some Things Never Leave You - Zeina Azzam πŸ‰ I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti πŸ‰ Nothing More To Lose - Najwan Darwish πŸ‰ The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan πŸ‰ Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear - Mosab Abu Toha πŸ‰ Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo πŸ‰ Water & Salt -Lena Khalaf Tuffaha πŸ‰ Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. - Noor Hindi πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
✨ Non-Fiction/Memoirs πŸ‰ Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman - N.S. Nuseibeh πŸ‰ The Trinity of Fundamentals - Wisam Rafeedie πŸ‰ Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - Ahed Tamimi & Dena Takruri πŸ‰ Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation - Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan πŸ‰ Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine - Ibtisam Barakat πŸ‰ We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance - Linda Sarsour πŸ‰ Palestine: A Socialist Introduction - Sumaya Awad & Brian Bean πŸ‰ Voices of the Nakba - Diana Allan πŸ‰ Tracing Homelands - Linda Dittmar πŸ‰ Black Power & Palestine - Michael R. Fischbach πŸ‰ The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan PappΓ© πŸ‰ A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - Nathan Thrall πŸ‰ A Land with a People - Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky, & Sarah Sills πŸ‰ Inara by Mx. Yaffa AS πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Mural - Mahmoud Darwish πŸ‰ Light in Gaza - Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, & Michael Merryman lotze πŸ‰ The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein πŸ‰ Gaza - Norman Finkelstein
✨ Fiction πŸ‰ A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Minor Detail - Adania Shibli πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Philistine - Leila Marshy πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Muneera and the Moon - Sonia Sulaiman πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Belladonna - Anbara Salam πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Behind You Is The Sea - Susan Muaddi Darraj πŸ‰ The Coin - Yasmin Zaher πŸ‰ Guapa - Saleem Haddad πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Parisian - Isabella Hammad πŸ‰ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan πŸ‰ The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa πŸ‰ The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah πŸ‰ Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa πŸ‰ My First and Only Love - Sahar Khalifeh πŸ‰ They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories - Sheikha Helawy πŸ‰ Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad πŸ‰ Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh πŸ‰ A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum πŸ‰ Mother of Strangers - Suad Amiry πŸ‰ Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‰ The Book of Ramallah - Maya Abu Al-Hayat
πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Graphic Novels πŸ‰ Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata πŸ‰ Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas πŸ‰ Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger πŸ‰ Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata πŸ‰ Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh πŸ‰ My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad
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eldritch-bf Β· 10 months ago
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shoppalestine has a variety of items but I specifically wanted to highlight their books, and a few in particular.
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding the Palestinian experience.
Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and center Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza is an urgent and powerful intervention into an important political moment.
Blood Orange
Blood Orange is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.
On Zionist Literature
Interweaving his literary criticism of works by George Eliot, Arthur Koestler, and many others with a historical materialist narrative, Kanafani identifies the political intent and ideology of Zionist literature, demonstrating how the myths used to justify the Zionist-imperialist domination of Palestine first emerged and were repeatedly propagated in popular literary works in order to generate support for Zionism and shape the Western public's understanding of it.
A Child's View From Gaza: Palestinian Children's Art and the Fight Against Censorship
A Child's View from Gaza is a collection of drawings by children from the Gaza Strip, art that was censored by the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, California. With beautiful, high-resolution print images of the exhibit, the book also features a special foreword by celebrated author, Alice Walker, as well as an essay by MECA Executive Director, Barbara Lubin, describing the struggle against the censorship.
Note: for obvious reasons, shipping can take over a month; in addition, they are currently unable to ship to the UK, and EU customers must spend at least €180; you may have to pay additional fees to get your package through customs.
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forsapphics Β· 1 year ago
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Belladonna (2020) by Anbara Salam β€” book covers
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wordwings Β· 11 months ago
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aroaessidhe Β· 6 months ago
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2024 reads / storygraph
Salt Houses
historical fiction
follows 4 generations of a Palestinian family from Nablus between 1967 and 2014
uprooted and grieving after the Six Day War, they start to build a life in Kuwait, until they’re once again displaced in 1990 and scatter to Paris, Beruit, Amman, and Boston
different chapters from almost every family member’s perspective, skipping years in between
explores complex family dynamics, grief, and loss of home and identity through displacement
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