Q&A with PalFest’s Yasmin El-Rifae
To me, this is where solidarity can begin: by knowing, by seeing. Carefully, of course.
Palestine in Turin, Paris and in Palestine
On May 14, in a cabin called Babel at Turin Book Fair’s Pavilion 3, Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif and Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoun read excerpts of Mahmoud Darwish’s…
PalFest: Between occupation and literature
On May 28, the annual Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) came to a close after a week of literary events in various locations across the occupied Palestinian West…
On returning from Palestine
At the border it is always the same questions. Do you have another name? Do you have another passport? What is your father’s name? What is his father’s…
Yemeni Oscar nominee banned from entering Palestine for literature festival
Israeli border staff barred filmmaker Sara Ishaq from entering Palestine to participate in the Palestine Festival of Literature on Friday at the Allenby Bridge between Amman and the…
Crossing lines with PalFest
Ursula Lindsey's thoughtful piece on freedom of movement in Palestine and the importance of the annual literary festival there.
Omar Robert Hamilton
Omar Robert Hamilton is a filmmaker and writer. He co-founded the Palestine Festival of Literature and the Mosireen media collective in Cairo. His debut novel, The City Always Wins – which is set within the Egyptian revolution – was…