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Don’t Look Away, by Selma Dabbagh as featured in the London Review of Books

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Selma Dabbagh: Slučaj protiv Izraela

foto Remko de Waal, AFP Konačno, nešto se pokreće. Stručnjaci za međunarodno javno pravo kažu da odluka Međunarodnog suda pravde (MSP) predstavlja prekretnicu. Za početak, resetovan je rečnik. Gotovo je sa referencama na „samoodbranu“, koje služe kao izgovor za neoprostivo; uvedeni su uverljivi argumenti da najveći saveznik SAD i UK na Bliskom istoku vrši genocid. Sudije su prvo odbacile tvrdnje…

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LBF 2024 – the public space returns with real conversations

The 2024 London Book Fair returned this year at the iconic Olympia with its famous barrel-vaulted roof and magnificent cast-iron galleries. The fair had been moved to 12 to 14 March, after initially being scheduled for 16 to 18 April. The change was prompted by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair announcing its dates for 8 to 11 April, just a few days before the original LBF dates, which would have been a problem for those attending both fairs. 

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Exhibitors from India were also back in business with around 35 booths, including NBT’s collective stand. Unfortunately, and unlike previous years, LBF’s country statistics this year provided numbers not according to where exhibitors are headquartered but based on their markets. Out of the 180-some exhibitors from Asia-Pacific, 56 were based or selling in India, 56 in mainland China, 42 in Japan, 36 in Hong Kong, 36 in South Korea, 35 in Singapore, 29 in Malaysia, 28 in Taiwan, 26 in Thailand, 24 in Vietnam, 23 in the Philippines, 20 in Indonesia, several companies in Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Mongolia, and 67 in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.

India’s multilingual opportunity

One of the panel discussions held on the first day of the fair, “Dynamics of India’s Multilingual Market,” explored the intricacies and opportunities of India's multilingual publishing market. The panel included Yuvraj Malik, NBT’s managing director; Aditi Maheshwari, CEO of the Vani Prakashan Group; Prashant Pathak, director of Publishing Operations at Prakash Books; and, Ajay Mago, publisher at Om Books. The discussion centered around the impact of India’s new National Education Policy 2020 and its emphasis on multilingualism. From the rise of Indian languages to the potential for global collaborations, the panel tried to analyse the dynamic forces shaping India’s diverse publishing industry and provide insights to international publishers interested in collaborative ventures.

English Pen seminars – Palestine, free expression

Also on the first day, Book Workers for a Free Palestine held a vigil in front of the entrance, “to mark the death of Palestinian writers, poets, academics and journalists killed by Israel,” as Penguin publishing director Ailah Ahmed explained. The English PEN ran two seminars on ‘Palestine, Israel, and Free Expression in the UK,’ featuring authors Selma Dabbagh, Isabella Hammad, Rafeef Ziadah, Palestine Festival of Literature producer Yasmin El-Rifae, Oxford University professor of International Relations Avi Shlaim, and the vice president of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Professor Neve Gordon. The discussion focused on the cancellation of multiple events that were to include Palestinian artists over the past six months.

Iraqi-Jewish Professor Shlaim said that the UK had a longstanding issue with “freedom of expression” when it comes to Israel and Palestine. “The climate of opinion favours Israel and British Jews, and it’s very hostile to Palestinians and Muslims.” He also criticised the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-semitism, which is largely supported by UK institutions as being “weaponised in order to silence free speech on Israel.”

But also at LBF 2024, Profile Books acquired the rights to publish What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh. In the book, Palestinian lawyer and founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq Shehadah, explores the opportunities for peace that were rejected by Israel since its formation in 1948. 

Writers against the war on Gaza

In the meantime, more than 3,000 writers, editors, and Hollywood celebrities have joined forces to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people in a letter responding to the ongoing conflict. Taking their inspiration from the 1960s’ American Writers Against the Vietnam War, they formed an impromptu international coalition, Writers Against the War on Gaza, supported by high-profile names such as Susan Sarandon, Gael García Bernal, Jia Tolentino, Ocean Vuong, Valeria Luiselli, Cathy Park Hong, Hannah Black, Ari Brostoff, Kyle Dacuyan and others from diverse publications and institutions. The authors recognise that while their words alone cannot halt the devastation in Gaza, they intend “to challenge and rectify the distortions and misrepresentations in the media. The coalition strongly condemns those in their field who they believe perpetuate apartheid and genocide narratives.”

The next LBF is to take place from 11 to 13 March 2025.

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A Tale of Love and Desire + Post Screening Reading & Conversation

In collaboration with T A P E and Reclaim the Frame x International, the Exeter Phoenix presents a special screening of A Tale Of Love and Desire, alongside readings from the anthology We Wrote in Symbols and discussion with Selma Dabbagh. Continue reading Untitled

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To You by Arab al-Mamuniyya

~ translated by Abdullah al-Udhari (taken from We Wrote in Symbols by Selma Dabbagh

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We Wrote In Symbols edited by Selma Dabbagh

I’ve been absolutely obsessed with this book and I don’t know what to do now that I’m done with it. I don’t think I’ve read stories or poems about lust or love written this way. At times they’re almost brutal and crass, because I can imagine them being told in Urdu, and how they would sound to me, but others they’re familiar, and others make your heart ache.

This contains a lot of translations, but really nice ones, and I always appreciate when someone curates things well as opposed to just being well stuff is important let’s throw it in.

#QOTD: How often do you read poetry or works that have been translated?

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Center For Palestine Studies At Columbia University Launches New Radio Play Program

Center For Palestine Studies At Columbia University Launches New Radio Play Program

A new platform for Palestinian playwrights called NO PLACE / LA MAKAN / لا مكان had its launch event last week: The event was a conversation between Palestinian writers Selma Dabbagh and Ahmed Masoud “about what it means to write for radio and their experiences writing in, about, and outside of Palestine.” Dabbagh and Masoud are artistic advisors of the new NO PLACE | LA MAKAN | لا مكان program,…

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MINOR DETAIL

Adania Shibli

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette

Published 6 May 2020 French paperback with flaps, 120 pages

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Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.

‘Minor Detail has the qualities of a classic: original, distinctive, determined; revealing everything, while dictating nothing.’ — Selma Dabbagh, Electronic Intifada

‘This is an astonishing, major book.’ — Lit Hub

‘An extraordinary work of art, Minor Detail is continuously surprising and absorbing: a very rare blend of moral intelligence, political passion and formal virtuosity.’ — Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger

‘Adania Shibli takes a gamble in entrusting our access to the key event in her novel – the rape and murder of a young Bedouin woman – to two profoundly self-absorbed narrators – an Israeli psychopath and a Palestinian amateur sleuth high on the autism scale – but her method of indirection justifies itself fully as the book reaches its heart-stopping conclusion.’ — J.M. Coetzee, 2003 Nobel Prize-winner

‘Adania Shibli’s exceptional novel Minor Detail belongs to the genre of the novel as resistance, as revolutionary text. As we join the nameless young woman in her quest to find the truth of a long-forgotten atrocity, we realize how dangerous it is to reclaim life and history in the face of ongoing, systematic erasure. The narrative tempo, that eventually reaches a crescendo, astutely captures how alienation and heightened anxiety are elemental states of living under Israeli occupation. This is the political novel we have all been waiting for.’ — Meena Kandasamy, author of When I Hit You

‘Written with an exquisite, tactile, and deceptive simplicity, Minor Detail tells the story of a woman’s violation and murder in the aftermath of the Palestinian catastrophe and the founding of the Israeli state, and of another woman’s curiosity about this “minor detail” in the modern day. Immediately after I finished reading this miraculous novel, I read it again; both times, it sliced through my heart. I believe it will be one for the ages.’ — Isabella Hammad, author of The Parisian

Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul Starkey, 2012). She was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004.

Elisabeth Jaquette is an award-winning translator from the Arabic, whose work includes Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue, Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise, and Dima Wannous’s The Frightened Ones. She is also executive director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).

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Over one hundred artists write on Trump and Jerusalem

Image: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP The Guardian reports (10th December) President Macron’s comment that recent US moves on the status of Jerusalem are a threat to peace. They are much more than that.

In recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Donald Trump seeks to achieve through a declaration what Israel has been trying to do for fifty years through force of arms: to erase Palestinians, as a political and cultural presence, from the life of their own city.

The Palestinian people of Jerusalem are already subject to municipal discrimination at every level, and a creeping process of ethnic cleansing. In addition to the continuing policy of house demolitions, in the last fifteen years, at least thirty-five Palestinian public institutions and NGOs in occupied East Jerusalem have been permanently or temporarily closed by the occupying forces. Cultural institutions have been a particular target.

At the same time Israeli authorities and entrepreneurs have spent millions in clearing Palestinian neighbourhoods to create ‘heritage’ projects that promote a myth of mono-ethnic urban identity, said to stretch back 3000 years.

We reject Trump’s collusion with such racist manipulation, and his disregard for international law. We deplore his readiness to crown the Israeli military conquest of East Jerusalem and his indifference to Palestinian rights.

As artists and as citizens, we challenge the ignorance and inhumanity of these policies, and celebrate the resilience of Palestinians living under occupation.

Khalid Abdalla, actor Tunde Adebimpe, musician Peter Ahrends, architect Hanan Al-Shaykh, writer Tayo Aluko, actor, playwright Frankie Armstrong, musician Jonathan Arndell, architect Conrad Atkinson, visual artist Rory Attwell, musician, producer Phyllida Barlow, visual artist Roy Battersby, film director Sarah Beddington, visual artist Yves Berger, painter Nicholas Blincoe, writer Nick Broomfield, film director David Calder, actor Julie Christie, actor Caryl Churchill, playwright Norma Cohen, actor, writer Joseph Coward, writer, singer Molly Crabapple, writer, artist Darren Cullen, artist Michael Cunningham, writer Selma Dabbagh, writer William Dalrymple, writer, historian Michael Darlow, director Angela Davis, writer Dror Dayan, filmmaker April de Angelis, playwright Andy de la Tour, actor Ivor Dembina, comedian Shane Dempsey, theatre director Olof Dreijer, musician Zillah Eisenstein, author Sally El Hosaini, screenwriter, director Brian Eno, musician Eve Ensler, playwright Samir Eskanda, musician Jodie Evans, author, producer Marcia Farquhar, artist Jem Finer, artist Annie Firbank, actor Peter Gabriel, musician Tom Gilroy, actor, director Orlando Gough, composer Stephanos Gouvianakis, DJ Trevor Griffiths, playwright Douglas Hart, musician, director Mona Hatoum, visual artist Rachel Holmes, writer Ian Ilavsky, label co-founder Aki Kaurismaki, film director John Keane, visual artist Peter Kennard, artist AL Kennedy, writer Nancy Kricorian, writer Hari Kunzru, writer Paul Laverty, screenwriter James Lecesne, actor Mike Leigh, writer, director Tom Leonard, poet Les Levidow, violinist Ken Loach, film director Carmen Lobue, actor Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright Billy Lunn, musician Charlotte Marionneau, musician Kika Markham, actor Francesca Martinez, comedian, actor Massive Attack, band Ahmed Masoud, writer, director Hisham Matar, writer Emel Mathlouthi, musician Mark Matousek, writer Julian Maynard Smith, artist, director JD Meatyard, musician Pauline Melville, writer, actor China Miéville, writer Simon Milner, musician Thurston Moore, musician Tom Morello, musician Jenny Morgan, filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi, artist Harry Newman, actor Christopher Norris, philosopher, writer Andrew O'Hagan, writer Eugene O'Hare, actor Kate Parker, producer Maxine Peake, actor Miranda Pennell, filmmaker Tonya Pinkins, actor Vijay Prashad, writer John Robb, musician, writer Michael Rosen, poet Mark Ruffalo, actor Kareem Samara, musician Lias Saoudi, musician Ian Saville, magician James Schamus, screenwriter, producer, director Nick Seymour, musician Nabil Shaban, actor, writer Khaldoun Shami, filmmaker Yasmin Shariff, architect Farhana Sheikh, writer Sheikh, band Kevin Shields, musician Gillian Slovo, writer John Smith, visual artist Ahdaf Soueif, writer Juliet Stevenson, actor Tilda Swinton, actor Yanis Varoufakis, author Naomi Wallace, playwright Marina Warner, writer Roger Waters, musician Hilary Westlake, theatre director Vivienne Westwood, designer whenyoung, band Don Wilkie, label co-founder Susan Wooldridge, actor, writer Robert Wyatt, musician

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/artists-attack-trump-over-jerusalem-move

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Over one hundred artists write on Trump and Jerusalem

The Guardian reports (10th December) President Macron’s comment that recent US moves on the status of Jerusalem are a threat to peace. They are much more than that.

In recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Donald Trump seeks to achieve through a declaration what Israel has been trying to do for fifty years through force of arms: to erase Palestinians, as a political and cultural presence, from the life of their own city.

The Palestinian people of Jerusalem are already subject to municipal discrimination at every level, and a creeping process of ethnic cleansing. In addition to the continuing policy of house demolitions, in the last fifteen years, at least thirty-five Palestinian public institutions and NGOs in occupied East Jerusalem have been permanently or temporarily closed by the occupying forces. Cultural institutions have been a particular target.

At the same time Israeli authorities and entrepreneurs have spent millions in clearing Palestinian neighbourhoods to create ‘heritage’ projects that promote a myth of mono-ethnic urban identity, said to stretch back 3000 years.

We reject Trump’s collusion with such racist manipulation, and his disregard for international law. We deplore his readiness to crown the Israeli military conquest of East Jerusalem and his indifference to Palestinian rights.

As artists and as citizens, we challenge the ignorance and inhumanity of these policies, and celebrate the resilience of Palestinians living under occupation.

Khalid Abdalla, actor Mustafa İlhan, photographer, journalist Tunde Adebimpe, musician Peter Ahrends, architect Hanan Al-Shaykh, writer Tayo Aluko, actor, playwright Frankie Armstrong, musician Jonathan Arndell, architect Conrad Atkinson, visual artist Phyllida Barlow, visual artist Roy Battersby, film director Sarah Beddington, visual artist Yves Berger, painter Nicholas Blincoe, writer Nick Broomfield, film director David Calder, actor Julie Christie, actor Caryl Churchill, playwright Norma Cohen, actor, writer Joseph Coward, writer, singer Molly Crabapple, writer, artist Darren Cullen, artist Michael Cunningham, writer Selma Dabbagh, writer William Dalrymple, writer, historian Michael Darlow, director Angela Davis, writer Dror Dayan, filmmaker April de Angelis, playwright Andy de la Tour, actor Ivor Dembina, comedian Shane Dempsey, theatre director Olof Dreijer, musician Zillah Eisenstein, author Sally El Hosaini, screenwriter, director Brian Eno, musician Eve Ensler, playwright Samir Eskanda, musician Jodie Evans, author, producer Annie Firbank, actor Peter Gabriel, musician Tom Gilroy, actor, director Orlando Gough, composer Stephanos Gouvianakis, DJ Douglas Hart, musician, director Mona Hatoum, visual artist Rachel Holmes, writer Ian Ilavsky, label co-founder Aki Kaurismaki, film director John Keane, visual artist Peter Kennard, artist AL Kennedy, writer Nancy Kricorian, writer Hari Kunzru, writer Paul Laverty, screenwriter James Lecesne, actor Mike Leigh, writer, director Tom Leonard, poet Les Levidow, violinist Ken Loach, film director Carmen Lobue, actor Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright Billy Lunn, musician Charlotte Marionneau, musician Kika Markham, actor Francesca Martinez, comedian, actor Massive Attack, band Ahmed Masoud, writer, director Hisham Matar, writer Emel Mathlouthi, musician Mark Matousek, writer Julian Maynard Smith, artist, director JD Meatyard, musician Pauline Melville, writer, actor Simon Milner, musician Thurston Moore, musician Tom Morello, musician Jenny Morgan, filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi, artist Harry Newman, actor Christopher Norris, philosopher, writer Andrew O'Hagan, writer Eugene O'Hare, actor Kate Parker, producer Maxine Peake, actor Miranda Pennell, filmmaker Tonya Pinkins, actor Vijay Prashad, writer John Robb, musician, writer Michael Rosen, poet Mark Ruffalo, actor Kareem Samara, musician Lias Saoudi, musician Ian Saville, magician James Schamus, screenwriter, producer, director Nick Seymour, musician Nabil Shaban, actor, writer Khaldoun Shami, filmmaker Yasmin Shariff, architect Farhana Sheikh, writer Sheikh, band Kevin Shields, musician Gillian Slovo, writer John Smith, visual artist Ahdaf Soueif, writer Juliet Stevenson, actor Tilda Swinton, actor Yanis Varoufakis, author Naomi Wallace, playwright Marina Warner, writer Roger Waters, musician Hilary Westlake, theatre director Vivienne Westwood, designer whenyoung, band Don Wilkie, label co-founder Susan Wooldridge, actor, writer Robert Wyatt, musician

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AN OPEN LETTER TO RADIOHEAD

London, April 24th  2017

Dear Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway,

You’re listed to play Tel Aviv in July this year.

We’d like to ask you to think again – because by playing in Israel you’ll be playing in a state where, UN rapporteurs say, ‘a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people’.  

We understand you’ve been approached already by Palestinian campaigners. They’ve asked you to respect their call for a cultural boycott of Israel, and you’ve turned them down.   Since Radiohead campaigns for freedom for the Tibetans, we’re wondering why you’d turn down a request to stand up for another people under foreign occupation. And since Radiohead fronted a gig for the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we’re wondering why you’d ignore a call to stand against the denial of those rights when it comes to the Palestinians.

Radiohead once issued a statement saying: ‘Without the work of organisations like Amnesty International, the Universal Declaration would be mere rhetoric’.   You’ve clearly read Amnesty’s reports, so you’ll know that Israel denies freedom to the Palestinians under occupation, who can’t live where they want, can’t travel as they please, who get detained (and often tortured) without charge or trial, and can’t even use Facebook without surveillance, censorship and arrest.  

In asking you not to perform in Israel, Palestinians have appealed to you to take one small step to help pressure Israel to end its violation of basic rights and international law. Surely if making a stand against the politics of division, of discrimination and of hate means anything at all, it means standing against it everywhere – and that has to include what happens to Palestinians every day.   Otherwise the rest is, to use your words, ‘mere rhetoric’.

You may think that sharing the bill with Israeli musicians Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis, who play Jewish-Arabic music, will make everything OK.   It won’t, any more than ‘mixed’ performances in South Africa brought closer the end of the apartheid regime.  Please do what artists did in South Africa’s era of oppression: stay away, until apartheid is over.

Yours,

Tunde Adebimpe, musician, TV on the Radio Conrad Atkinson, artist Richard Barrett, composer David Calder, actor Julie Christie, actor Selma Dabbagh, writer William Dalrymple, historian, writer and broadcaster April De Angelis, playwright Shane Dempsey, theatre director Laurence Dreyfus, musician and director, Phantasm Viol Consort Geoff Dyer, writer Eve Ensler, playwright Bella Freud, fashion designer Douglas Hart, musician and director Charles Hayward, musician Remi Kanazi, performance poet Peter Kennard, artist Peter Kosminsky, writer/director/producer Hari Kunzru, writer Paul Laverty, screenwriter Mike Leigh, writer/director Ken Loach, director Lowkey, musician Miriam Margolyes, actor Kika Markham, actor Elli Medeiros, musician Pauline Melville, writer and actor Roger Michell, director China Miéville, writer Thurston Moore, musician Maxine Peake, actor Dave Randall, musician Ian Rickson, director Michael Rosen, writer and broadcaster Alexei Sayle, comedian and writer James Schamus, screenwriter, director and producer Nick Seymour, musician, Crowded House Adrian Sherwood, record producer Juliet Stevenson, actor Ricky Tomlinson, actor Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa Alice Walker, writer Harriet Walter, actor Roger Waters, musician Susan Wooldridge, actor and author Robert Wyatt, musician Young Fathers, musicians

Links:

Artists For Palestine

Names and ages of all killed in Gaza till Tuesday, July 8, 2016

Statements by Thurston Moore, Robert Wyatt, Ken Loach, Peter Kosminsky (scroll down)

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Un balzo, un altro e poi un altro ancora e, visto che non vola, ora sta saltando sopra il mare, il Mare Bianco, Al Bahr Al Abyad, il Mediterraneo. Così blu e vivo, con pesci e delfini che guizzano, che si lanciano come lui, su, in alto nel cielo, fuori da tutto e lontano da lì.

Non volevo raccontare soltanto il dilemma di una generazione di palestinesi, tra chi vuole restare per lottare e chi invece ha la possibilità di fuggire per inseguire i propri sogni, ma descrivere il punto di rottura, il momento non ritorno di ciascun individuo, in termini di scelta morale. Quella sensazione di sentirsi tagliati fuori dalla storia, qualcosa che persino molti palestinesi che vivono sotto occupazione danno per scontata.

Selma Dabbagh

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Artists’ statements on Trump and occupied Jerusalem

Statements by musicians Peter Gabriel and Robert Wyatt, poet Michael Rosen, playwright Caryl Churchill, writers Selma Dabbagh, Hari Kunzru and Ahmed Masoud, producer Kate Parker and filmmaker Ken L…

Source: Artists’ statements on Trump and occupied Jerusalem

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Our fingers touched once, I almost saw we were married

but you threw me a smile that said I know you and I thought do you?

~ Sabrina Mahfouz