"... all with professional invitations from prestigious institutions in Europe or the US
which they, like my breakfast hostess, could not take up because Israel refused
them permission to leave Gaza. Life is lived here in an intellectual and
psychological stranglehold. But it is part of the will to survive of Gazans that so
many of them make their voices resonate so far outside. One of these men with a
stream of invitations was Ziad ..."
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupatio ..."
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupatio ..."
Radius A Story of Feminist Revolution by El-Rifae, Yasmin Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2022 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-768-5, ISBN: 1-83976-768-5
"A Story of Feminist Revolution Yasmin El-Rifae. We begin a search , her and I , to discover the date of the event , I go back and listen to what I said on TV programs and what I wrote , I hear my voice and I ... Yasmine 182 YASMIN EL - RIFAE."
"PALESTINE. BEGIN? Yasmin. El-Rifae. I'm sitting in my office in New York,
lingering over the draft of an email I need to send to the staff. It explains my
complicated trip through Saudi Arabia and Germany and Egypt, finally to
Palestine for the festival. I feel that I am not straightforward enough for these
colleagues, most of whom are three or four hours away from home, their families
a city or a state away instead of scattered ac ..."
Radius A Story of Feminist Revolution by YasminEl-Rifae 219 Pages, Published 2022 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-770-8, ISBN: 1-83976-770-7
"Journalist Yasmin El-Rifae was one of Opantish's organizers, and this is her evocative, aching account of their work, as they raced to develop new tactics, struggled with a revolution bleeding into counter-revolution, and dealt with the ..."