Palestine Writes fights censorship calls
18 September 2023
Festival organizers urge UPenn to reject malicious claims by pro-Israel lobby. Read more about Palestine Writes fights censorship calls
18 September 2023
Festival organizers urge UPenn to reject malicious claims by pro-Israel lobby. Read more about Palestine Writes fights censorship calls
10 September 2020
Susan Abulhawa on her new novel chronicling a life of exile, confinement and defiance. Read more about Podcast Ep 23: Against the loveless world
1 June 2018
Human rights defenders shout down former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak in San Francisco. Read more about Philadelphia Orchestra teams up with Israeli soldiers
13 April 2018
Participants pull out of the film festival after calls for boycott. Read more about Israel sponsoring film, music festivals in Istanbul
10 March 2016
Lawsuit seeks $34.5 billion in damages from US donors and groups accused of facilitating Israeli settlements and war crimes. Read more about Palestinians sue billionaire Sheldon Adelson for Israeli war crimes
5 January 2016
Lawsuit says $1 billion a year in charitable donations are being used to dispossess Palestinians. Read more about US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
14 August 2015
21-year-old college student Nerdeen Kiswani was denied entry to Palestine because of her activism in support of Palestinian rights. Read more about Listen: Israel blocks US citizen from visiting Palestine
18 December 2014
“Lawyer with a soul” Raja Shehadeh contributes essay on the importance of “vision.” Read more about Literary journal "Wasafiri" launches Palestine special edition
27 October 2014
Author Susan Abulhawa will launch the campaign in New York City next month. Read more about “Mornings in Jenin” chosen as first book in Palestine-inspired reading campaign
2 June 2013
The Palestine Festival of Literature was very much about feeling and thinking deeply about Palestine, about ourselves, and surroundings in the context of home from a literary rather than a rigid political eye. Read more about Imagining Palestine through PalFest