Have you registered for jewishcurrents.org/live yet? I'm super excited for the conversation between Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli, for Fargo Tbakhi's new performance work, and that all the proceeds from tickets go to Palestine Legal and the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

A live taping of Between the Covers with (((David Naimon))), Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli

I'll be pinching myself this Sunday so if you happen to be in NYC do come remind me that this isn't a dream but rather a dream come to true. Come marvel at the brilliance of Adania Shibli and Dionne Brand in conversation at Jewish Currents Live: jewishcurrents.org/live/program

A-MAZING.

Dear New Yorkers, don't miss this incredible event with (among so many other things) our best oral archivist of contemporary literature, namely, (((David Naimon))), who will conversing with Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli. I cannot imagine a more incredible conversation. 🖤

Omg.

Incredible lineup

I sobbed. Read this poem. Necessary and full of love and hope and brutal honesty amidst the devastation of our time. Heroic work.

"How silly of me, to dream utopia disentangled from borders — we need better names than Heaven, than leaving the world we knew, for a poem we cannot leave. I'm trying to have faith in unknowing: to trust in the becoming of us" scalawagmagazine.org/2024/09/on-the… George Abraham (they/he) 🍉 جورج إبراهيم Scalawag

In which the university is scared. The Organizers Are Jewish. The Cause Is Palestinian. This College Won’t Be Hosting. nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opi…

Elias Khoury on the greatest prize he ever won.

Ever go to a talk of someone you haven’t heard of before and it’s so good that you immediately get their book? That’s me today with Minor Detail by Adania Shibli.

“I don’t think you can write a liberatory politics without interrogating your received language, your received imagery, your received tropes. Anything that has been received is suspect..." Stunning conversation between Vajra Chandrasekera & (((David Naimon))) 💥🔥tinhouse.com/podcast/vajra-…

“It’s not about replacing one set of bad tropes with another set of good tropes, it’s about constantly critiquing and taking apart the tropes that you’re using to demonstrate the ways in which they were made and to show what else could be done with those parts.” Vajra Chandrasekera

Sometimes life is impossibly wondrous

Our Executive Director Sunita Viswanath attended the Jewish Currents conference this past weekend, where she linked up with Rabbi Alissa Wise and Zahir Janmohamed. The conference addressed several topics, including a panel on Judaism & Jewishness beyond Zionism by Rabbi Alissa Shira!

still thinking, and will be for some time, about adania shibli Jewish Currents live yesterday - “we write in order not to become monsters”