This is Not a Border

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature is a collection of essays, diaries and poems collected over the festival’s first decade. A unique collection from some of the most important writers of our time.

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Highlights include:

  • Mahmoud Darwish’s welcome to the first festival in 2008

  • Ahdaf Soueif’s sweeping history of al-Quds’ Noble Sanctuary

  • Teju Cole on the cold violence at work in the colonization of Jerusalem

  • Suheir Hammad’s Gaza Suite

  • Pankaj Mishra on the ideological convergence of Israel and India

  • An original short story from Claire Messud

  • China Miéville on the brutal absurdities of the occupying force

And many, many more.

A total of 47 authors contributed to This Is Not a Border over nine years of writing.