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When The Bulbul Stopped Singing: A Diary of Ramallah under Siege by Raja Shahadeh (opens the original)
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For those unfamiliar with the Second Intifada, it was born of a fissure in Palestinian society created by Oslo. That fissure divided those for whom resistance was the only solution from those who sought to accept dictated terms from America and the Occupier.Raja Shehadeh offers his own high-level commentary on this time in Palestinian history while also giving us a 30-day chronicle of being under siege by the Israelis. While his account is more than 20 years old now, in the context of the curren
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Early Release: When The Bulbul Stopped Singing: A Diary of Ramallah under Siege by Raja Shahadeh (opens the original)
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Raja Shehadeh gives us a 30-day diary of an Israeli siege at the beginning of the Second Intifada, while also giving broader perspectives on how Palestinian society got to that point (Oslo).As always, thanks for your support. Read more
Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza, by Hassan Kanafani with Yasuko Thanh (opens the original)
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As I often say, if it’s tiring and difficult to read accounts from Gaza after October 7th, what must it be like to live it? We have an obligation to continue this difficult learning at least as long as the Palestinians continue to resist, if not longer.“Hassan Kanafani” is a pen name for a Gazan seeking to protect himself from the Occupiers. Despite being trained as an engineer, he shows in his writing the soul of a poet. To see more reviews of Palestinian witness to genocide and Palestinian lit
When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine by Francesca Albanese (opens the original)
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It’s nearly impossible to be engaged with the Question of Palestine and not know who Francesca Albanese is. Yet, many of us who have heard her speak may never have heard her story. In When the World Sleeps, we get slices of her story interspersed with stories of Palestine and the final result if the perspective of someone who has a lot of access to find out the evils that are being done in Palestine, but who also has to deal with a lot of evil herself, as Those That May Not Be Accused have hound
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