Susan Muaddi Darraj ๐โ๏ธ
@SusanDarraj
๐ต๐ธ๐บ๐ฒ Award-winning Novelist,BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA ๐American Book Award #BlackLivesMatter She/her #FreePalestine Rep:Tom Colchie๐https://t.co/2SYmtcCg7d
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http://www.SusanMDBooks.com 01-07-2011 02:33:35
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I withdrew my work from consideration for the Jean Stein Award. I can't align myself w/ a human rights org that waits 5 months to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, while platforming zionists & pretending there's nuance to genocide.
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โ๐ฝWriters Against the War on Gaza
โ๐ฝPEN America United
In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this weekโโ
This is disgusting racist behavior from one of your students, Asa Blanton. Yaโll need to address this immediately. Indiana State U
At this point, I'm less concerned about what Indiana State U will do to Asa Blanton than I am about the nurse she will eventually become.
There are a lack of nurses in U.S. healthcare.
As a result, ignorant racists like her WILL find jobs & mistreat Black patients.
Two (among several) books withdrawn from PEN America awards due to ongoing protest of PEN's normalization & denial of genocide & failure to speak against the atrocities in Gaza.
For #30DaysofArabVoices , a series started by Dr. Sawsan Jaber, NBCT, I wrote about my recent experience being uninvited by a progressive school.
hannahmoushabeck.com/uncategorized/โฆ
An article Ryan Al-Natour | ุฑูุงู ุงููุงุทูุฑ and I wrote a couple of years ago about #PalestinianChristians .
middleeasteye.net/discover/chrisโฆ
this is palestinian poet rasha abdulhadiโs โthrowing sand in the gears of genocide.โ itโs through stories we imagine + build better worlds, but itโs also through action. echoing other winners/longlisters who have declined, i refuse to let my words be attached to this institution