Frantz Fanon: 'For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.'

The settler has no regard for the land. The settler lays everything to waste.

Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+.

Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

Freshly baked bread has been delivered by the team to the displaced families living in uncertainty.

We stand strong with our people and continue to provide them with food and any vital supplies they need.

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Watch | An Israeli military tank fires at displaced civilians' tents in eastern Rafah

This interview was just a superb example of how to respectfully, thoroughly, clearly, and compellingly make your argument, even under incredibly stressful circumstances.

If I hadn't already canceled my NYT subscription years ago for the many other, previous times they've been total dicks like this, I guess I'd be canceling it again.

This video just popped up on TikTok and my god. How inconsequential, how unimportant and transparently distracting the silly talk of “property damage” at campus protests really is.

Powerful moment at UT Dallas Gaza Liberation encampment!

Students chanting, 'Who failed Uvalde! You failed Uvalde!' at officers who work hard to beat up students while infamously waiting over an hour to protect them in what was the deadliest school shooting in TX history

PEN is an international organisation with many chapters, of which PEN America is just one. Each chapter has to sign up to the principles of the PEN charter. Within that limit, members decide policy. A change in administration of one PEN club is by no means the ‘end of PEN’

Thank you Susan Bernofsky for making us proud at last to be part of the translation studies community.

God help us all

If I could go back in time to the start of this translation and tell myself that Captain Randall--I mean Frank Randall--I mean Tobias Menzies! would be reading this scene... ... ... nope, no, I wouldn't have believed myself! 🤯

Bombing at iftar. We Americans must acknowledge

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i’m so moved by the authors who have withdrawn their works from PEN consideration. it’s courageous to reject the opportunity to be considered for $75,000, life changing money for most writers! happy to support Maya Binyam Eugenia Leigh Ordinary Notes Ghassan Zeineddine

“Why should I care about Gaza?”

Because what happens over there, happens over here.

The same politicians who don’t give a damn about babies going hungry in Gaza won’t (and don’t) give a damn about babies going hungry here in America.

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Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae translate from Korean to English. Their co-translation of Hwang Sok-yong’s Mater 2-10  has been longlisted for the 2024 Man Booker International Prize. In this episode, they spoke about the author and their experience of…

I guess it's a good time to emerge from semi-retirement from posting here to say hooray and thank you! And please keep an eye out for Youngjae's solo book translations, hopefully coming soon!