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.

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 ONLY LEFT

** 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.

The Exiles (1961)

KENT McKENZIE, 72 MINS

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.

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.

Join us in the new gardens of Nordic Cafe for a unique conversation about knowledge, art and resistance from four writers whose work is born of continuing struggles against erasure, apartheid and racial destruction.

PalFest returns for 2023 with the launch of Isabella Hammad’s new novel, a historical take on the festival’s theme from Toufic Haddad and a preview of a new play by Khawla Ibrahim.