Floored.

Tomorrow, 2-5:30PM Copley Georgetown Global Dialogues Day Four: 'Revitalizing Democracy: The Faith Dimension' & 'Countering Global Intellectual Inequality' Ece Temelkuran Sohrab Ahmari
Charles King Ranjit Hoskote Nesrine Malik Kwame Anthony Appiah Negar Azimi

One of the rare genuine pleasures of the recent past has been Wayne Koestenbaum’s new book. I wrote briefly about it and him for 4Columns: 4columns.org/haslett-tobi/s…

Asil Yaghi is a brilliant lawyer/writer who has been enormously helpful to me as I collect oral histories from Gaza … like legions, her family is marooned in Rafah, plagued by hunger and disease. PLEASE consider helping her family find passage to Egypt gofundme.com/f/help-my-fami…

We are so thrilled to announce a new edition of I CAN GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE, the incisive and vulnerable memoir by the inimitable Gary Indiana!

Tomorrow, March 9, Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in conversation about Kaveh’s debut novel: Martyr! Generously hosted by Triple Canopy 264 Canal Street @ 6 pm xxxxx a teaser in Bidoun: bidoun.org/articles/kaveh…

Still rereading ,and admiring, and wondering at, Pankaj Mishra's magnificent London Review of Books essay. It takes a lot of courage to write a piece like this. I really can't recommend it enough.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

'The best part of our Friday mishwar was the final stop at Kazem Ice Cafe on Omar al-Mukhtar Street for its famous barrad — the Gaza granita that launched a thousand Proustian madeleine moments.' ‘Reduced to dust’: An elegy for Gazan life wapo.st/3uQje3K by Negar Azimi

thinking about my own poem again

The Films of Claire Denis*

*that aren’t streaming or are without a proper physical release
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Now showing: FORAGERS, a portrait of resistance through a community’s love of collecting wild plants by JUMANA MANNA

A look at local foraging practices among Palestinians determined to protect their customs.

For one week on lecinemaclub.com in collaboration with Bidoun Projects.

“I’m interested in what it means to feel rage thirty-five years later about an event that nobody in America even remembers…” Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in conversion about Martyr!, Akbar’s stunning debut novel: bidoun.org/articles/kaveh…

A hero of our time.

Edward Said from 1984, like it was yesterday.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/…

“We want to live as the other children live”

A group of children at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza held a press conference on Tuesday night, calling for global attention to the child victims of Israeli bombardment on the besieged Gaza Strip

Today is the last day to order our rare re-issued Edward Said T-shirt. ALL proceeds go to ⁦Medical Aid for Palestinians⁩ everybody.world/products/edwar… … order by midnight Pacific time ✨

“We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic.” New: an open letter.
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