The last night of the 2023 Palestine Festival of Literature will be a double-header, starting off with:

Histories of Resistance: Maaza Menigste and Molly Crabapple will discuss their recent and upcoming work with Budour Hassan. Mengiste’s The Shadow King was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and an international bestseller, thrillingly chronicling the Ethiopian expulsion of the Italian occupation. Molly Crabapple, returning to PalFest for the second time, will discuss her recent book, Brothers of the Gun, co-authored with Marwan Hisham, and her upcoming book investigating her great-grandfather’s resistance to Nazi Germany with the Bund, a Jewish resistance movement that was also anti-Zionist.

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To close the festival, Isabella Hammad will interview Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mohammed el-Kurd. They will reflect on the questions raised by Palestine & the Global South and discuss their own works and lifetimes of struggle against racial supremacy. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the world’s foremost writers on white supremacy and the fight for racial justice in ‘America;’ Mohammed El-Kurd came to global attention during the 2021 #savesheikhjarrah campaign through his incisive and fearless commentary and writings and is now the first ever Palestine correspondent for The Nation.

All PalFest events are free and open to the public.

Books will be on sale at our Book Stand.

All PalFest events have simultaneous Arabic-English / English-Arabic translation.