Lindsey Waldenberg recently interviewed Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh about her project retracing the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20th century. 📚 Visit Mashriq & Mahjar to learn more: ow.ly/yuw050QYVSY

Refqa Abu-Remaileh’s innovative digital project "Country of Words" documents, historicizes & records Palestinian literature. Next week, we hear about the project & the key figures and periods of Palestinian literature. Out next Tuesday on YouTube and all major podcasting platforms.

Why is #PalestinianLiterature decentralized? Refqa Abu-Remaileh explains the questions at the heart of her European Research Council (ERC) project PalREAD - Country of Words. This Is Not a Watermelon podcast episode out today at 6pm on YouTube and all major podcasting platforms ➡️ youtu.be/GN1wv1uaK2Y?si…

Thank you for the great conversation on #PalestinianLiterature and countryofwords.org. What a beautiful cultural movement you have created Mikey Muhanna together with the brilliant afikra | عفكرة team! PalREAD - Country of Words Stanford Press #podcast

#WomenWriters of #Palestinian literature we should all be reading. Refqa Abu-Remaileh highlights key literary figures who have contributed to Palestinian literature but often get overlooked. European Research Council (ERC) PalREAD - Country of Words Watch now ➡️ youtu.be/GN1wv1uaK2Y?si…

All profits go to our partners in Gaza, Majalla 28. Find out more & order your copy of our Spring 2024 issue "Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!" here: arablit.org/2024/05/07/ann…

Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world— #AJOpinion by Gaza Academics and Administrators. 🔗: aje.io/cd1ght

Palestinian poetry is not only poetry for times of crisis. It is poetry for all time. It is another form of injustice to approach it as an extension or symptom of tragedy or even worse as merely a token of sympathy and solidarity asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/04/0…

Do you know anything about Palestinian Prison Literature? We wrote an article about the genre, its history and key figures inspired by our conversation with Refqa Abu-Remaileh 🍉 Read now📌afikra.com/blog/palestine… Image: Tawfiq Zayyad via Palestian Museum Archive

Refqa Abu-Remaileh If you want to learn about Palestinian literature, literary figures, and literary history more broadly, we'd highly recommend browsing Refqa Abu-Remaileh's site PalREAD - Country of Words which is an European Research Council (ERC) project. 🔗countryofwords.org

I imagine that Rabea Eghbariah's work on "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept" will have deep resonances for literary scholars as well. #PalestinianLiterature shorturl.at/VmcO0

The long shadow of #scholasticide will forever haunt universities, schools, professors, teachers, educational leaders, and institutions of learning that have remained silent. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The foundations for #scholasticide were laid down well before the Nakba of 1948... Thank you Makdisi Street and Maya Wind for this important conversation

Resisting #scholasticide - the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza gazauniversities.org

In 1948, Israel destroyed, plundered, and ruptured most of the Palestinian cultural sphere. To retrace and revive Palestine's literary landscape before the Nakba, Ibrahim Mahfouz Abdou and Refqa Abu-Remaileh study the periodicals of the time period: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Elias Khoury (1948–2024), we will miss your incredible presence, voice, and words. Born and died in times of genocide... you have so much to teach us, in both life and death. open.spotify.com/episode/0Sp5gx… #EliasKhoury

Gaza Scholars Speak Out on Scholasticide and Higher Education x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Thank you #MELALibs2024 for the opportunity to give the keynote address. It was such a pleasure engaging with you all on countryofwords.org published by Stanford Press. Thank you also for the spotlight on #epistemicide #scholasticide and Palestine.

PalREAD - Country of Words Refqa Abu-Remaileh From the MELA 2024 Book Awards Committee "This offers an invaluable and timely contribution to digital humanities and the history of Palestinian literature..." countryofwords.org Refqa Abu-Remaileh PalREAD - Country of Words #ReadPalestineWeek #ReadPalestine #ReadPalestinianAuthors