Happy birthday, Ghassan Kanafani – esteemed Palestinian writer and resolute revolutionary ✨💖 'To liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights, is something as essential as life itself.'

We stand in solidarity with Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop, who were arrested by Israeli undercover police on 9 February. Saqi Books

While we’re glad to hear of Mahmoud and Ahmad’s release, we join our colleagues Saqi Books Palestine Festival of Literature Publishers for Palestine and countless others across the world in decrying these arrests and Israel’s ongoing repression of Palestinian history, culture, literature and expression. (4/4)

Our friends at Saqi Books have set up a fundraiser to support the Educational Bookshop in E Jerusalem. Funds raised will go to replacing books seized, fixing material damage, & paying workers (terms of their release included that they not return to bookselling for min. 20 days).

Since October 2023, we have gradually lost two thirds of our funding because we uncompromisingly condemned the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Stand with autonomous, queer, anticolonial publishing from the South. Donate to Kohl! bit.ly/4aD4YLZ

I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

CALLING WRITERS OF COLOUR! We’re looking for new writing for The Hajar Book of Rage 🔥 What do you have to say on revolutionary anger? What do you use rage to fight against and to fight for? How does fury drive you? Submit to us by 15 April ❤️‍🔥 hajarpress.com/submissions

Write for us!! 🪄❤️‍🔥

For International #MotherLanguageDay, here’s a sneak peek from Saima Begum Saima Begum’s forthcoming novel, The First Jasmines, on the Bengali Language Movement 🇧🇩 hajarpress.com/books/the-firs…

If you know someone who is spending Ramadan alone invite them to your iftar gatherings, open your doors and share your space. May this be our best Ramadan!

Leila Khaled was born on this day in 1944. She is a Palestinian insurrectionist famous for her role in plane hijackings in 1969–70. On TWA Flight 840 due for Tel Aviv, she demanded the pilot fly over Haifa so she could see her birthplace, which her family fled during the Nakba.

On this day in 1979, schoolteacher and leftist organiser Blair Peach received a killing blow from a police officer at a protest in Southall, west London, against a meeting by the fascist National Front party.

*NEW BOOK ALERT!* How good is this cover by Han Gunji Stephens & Samara Jundi for the first book in our new elements series 🧨 Out in October, The Hajar Book of Rage is a searing tribute to the fires of anger that fuel our resistance ❤️‍🔥 Preorder now 😌 hajarpress.com/books/elements…

One more book for 2025, as a treat! COOP: A NOVELETTE by Nida Sajid 💫 Between minimum-wage work and strained texts with her parents, Lena’s days are shaped by struggles with food and job-hunting. As her story unravels, can she find autonomy and escape? hajarpress.com/books/coop

Full solidarity with Palestine Action , threatened with proscription by the British imperialist regime because of their direct action to materially inhibit the Zionist war crimes and genocide in Palestine and throughout the region. #WeAreAllPalestineAction

British-Bangladeshi author Saima Begum Saima Begum shares family photos and memories, reflecting on how her parents’ inspiration and support has made her writing possible ✍🏾