This is not a border : reportage & reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature /
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...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2017.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Adhaf Soueif
- Welcome / Mahmoud Darwish
- Where does Palestine begin? / Yasmin El-Rifae
- The Gaza suite : Gaza / Suheir Hammad
- Jerusalem / Adhaf Soueif
- Draw your own conclusions / J.M. Coetzee
- Three encounters on the West Bank / Mercedes Kemp
- Through the looking-glass / Adam Foulds
- Sleeping in Gaza / Najwan Darwish
- Once upon a Jeusalem / Susan Abulhawa
- Permission to enter / Jeremy Harding
- Privatising Allenby / Suad Amiry
- Allenby border crossing / Sabrina Mahfouz
- Qalandia / Gillian Slovo
- After ten years / John Horner
- Diary / Brigid Keenan
- India and Israel : an ideological convergence / Pankaj Mishra
- In the company of writers / Kamila Shamsie
- The Gaza suite : Jabaliya / Suheir Hammad
- Letters from Gaza / Atef Abu Saif
- Gaza, from Cairo / Selma Dabbagh
- From the diaspora, part one / Jehan Bseiso
- Darkening the dramaturgy / Omar El-Khairy
- This poem will not end apartheid / Remi Kanazi
- An image / Geoff Dyer
- Poetry and protest / Maath Musleh
- Cold violence / Teju Cole
- The City of David / Ghada Karmi
- The writer's job / William Sutcliffe
- From the diaspora, part two / Jehan Bseiso
- Equality, supremacy and security / Ed Pavlić
- A gift for PalFest / Alice Walker
- Silence is a language / Jeremy Harding
- Drawing PalFest / Muiz
- Diary / Deborah Moggach
- Until it isn't / Remi Kanazi
- Sight / Ru Freeman
- The end of apartheid / Henning Mankell
- What we witnessed / Michael Ondaatje
- Stories from the Armenian Quarter / Nancy Kricorian
- A scramble of authors / Michael Palin
- Bethlehem / Sabrina Mahfouz
- Crucifixion / Nathalie Handal
- Pakistan/Palestine / Mohammed Hanif
- Hebron / Sabrina Mahfouz
- The stranglehold / Victoria Brittain
- The sound of a festival / Chinua Achebe
- South Africa and Israel : a familiar geography / Rachel Holmes
- The Gaza suite : Rafah / Suheir Hammad
- Shujaiyya dust / Molly Crabapple
- Gaza / Sabrina Mahfouz
- A decade of writers' walks / Raja Shehadeh
- Let your lives speak / Linda Spalding
- A bus stop in London / Najwan Darwish
- The scattering / Claire Messud
- How to survive exile / Sabrina Mahfouz
- What we talk about when we talk about Palestine / Jamal Mahjoub
- The Gaza suite : Tel El Hawa / Suheir Hammad
- Exit strategy / China Miéville
- The Gaza suite : Zeitoun / Suheir Hammad
- The end of art is peace / Omar Robert Hamilton.