Palestine Writes Literature Festival Announces Program in Philadelphia

PALESTINE WRITES LITERATURE FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH AN OUTSTANDING LINE-UP OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS

PHILADELPHIA, PA (Aug 1, 2023) – Three years after Covid-19 pressured the inaugural Palestine Writes Festival to be held just about, the one Palestinian literature competition in North America is again with a powerful checklist of writers, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and different intellectuals. The competition will probably be held on the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Irvine Auditorium on September 22-24, 2023. One-off occasions may also happen in the times main as much as the competition’s opening on Friday.

Speakers embody Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, Arabic Booker Prize winner Ibrahim Nasrallah, celebrated filmmaker Darin Sallam, rock music legend Roger Waters, and dozens extra famend authors, resembling Elias Khoury, Huzama Habayeb, Isabella Hammad, Sahar Mustafah, Suad Amiry, Salman AbuSitta, Gary Younge, Nur Masalha, and extra.

The competition will probably be bilingual, with simultaneous translation for many periods. The program and speaker checklist are printed on-line, that includes 1) steady kids and YA programming; 2) Coffee & Books periods; 3) Panel discussions; 4) Plenaries; 5) Hakawati oral storytelling; 6) An artwork exhibit; 7) Workshops; 8) Presentations; 9) A movie screening, and; 10) Live performances.

Some highlights of the competition embody:
The Cost and Rewards of Friendship. A dialogue with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Gary Younge, Roger Waters, and Rachel Holmes on what it means to reside ethically and in solidarity with Palestinian in the midst of an empire that holds Palestinian in contempt.

The Novel as a Historic Record. Lebanese author Elias Khoury, Aboriginal Australian author Ali Cobby Eckerman, and Viet Thanh Nguyen will speak in regards to the methods in which novels right, obfuscate, reinvent, or destabilize historical past.

Film director Darin Sallam, creator of Farha, a ground-breaking Palestinian movie that streamed on Netflix and was Jordan’s submission for the Oscars, will speak about her movie and Palestinian cinema in normal.

Palestinian cooks Fadi Kattan, proprietor of Fawda Restaurant and akub London, and co-author of Craving Palestine, and Reem Assil, proprietor of Reem’s California and writer of Arabiyyeh, will speak about Palestinian delicacies, meals appropriation, and agricultural traditions cultivated over centuries in Palestine.

Al Ajaweed Dabke Troupe, touring to Philadelphia from the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqa’a in Jordan, will carry out Palestinian conventional line dance to folkloric songs.

The Festival would be the most dynamic gathering of Palestinian creatives in North America. In addition, the newly fashioned Palestine Writes Press will launch its first ebook, a translation and reprint of Ghassan Kanafani, on the Festival; the ebook was written by the Palestinian legendary author’s widow, Anni Kanafani, and can function a brand new foreword by Kanafani’s childhood buddy Dr. Fadle Naqib, and an introduction by scholar and historian Louis Allday. The Press additionally plans to launch an anthology of fiction, poetry, and different inventive prose by Palestinians throughout the diaspora in 2024.

ABOUT PALESTINE WRITES
Palestine Writes is the one North American literature competition devoted to celebrating and selling cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Born from the pervasive exclusion or tokenization of Palestinian voices in mainstream literary establishments, Palestine Writes brings Palestinian cultural staff from all components of Historic Palestine and our exiled Diaspora along with friends from different marginalized teams in the United States. Crossing a number of borders—geographic, linguistic, generational, and cultural boundaries—writers, artists, publishers, booksellers, students, musicians, and thinkers maintain conversations about artwork, literature, and the intersections between tradition and energy, wrestle, politics, local weather change, sexuality, human rights, animal rights, meals sovereignty, and extra.

CONTACT
For extra data, contact Laura Albast or Rana Sharif (coordinator@palestinewrites.org).