Palestine Festival of Literature

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…

Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises Omar Hamad (@OmarHamadD) saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them. Read the full story on The Key: thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-libr…

New on THE KEY “May Your Village Burn”: Inside Israel’s Wellness Industry Fariha Róisín, acclaimed author of WHO IS WELLNESS FOR?, examines the phenomenon of a wellness culture seemingly at ease with genocide. thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-welln…

Always, always, always the translations of @SaraFarag. Three of Dalia Taha's "enter" poems: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/thr…

Watch The Key's video dispatch from the Phoenix Library here: youtu.be/cNkPZ07QsY8?si…

Heartbreaking, surreal... unreal! Huda Fakhreddine writes about her family home in South Lebanon, in a village that now lives under the terror of Israel’s bombs. @FakhreddineHuda @PalFest thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhred…

Thank you to The Key for this lovely @PalFest badge, as part of the subscription package. The newsletter is excellent for keeping up with Palestinian literary and cultural life, and I strongly recommend subscribing.

Issue 005 of The Key is here! Today we have the honor of publishing Husam Maarouf's profile of @OmarHamadD and the newly-opened Phoenix Library in Gaza thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-libr…

Thanks to Husam Maarouf for this beautiful essay on Gaza’s Phoenix Library, tr. Naziha Baassiri. thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-libr…

In the latest edition of The Key, Fariha Róisín examines the viral phenomenon of Zionists who participate in wellness culture while also justifying genocide against Palestinians. That dissonance, she says, is made possible by the idea of “spiritual bypass" thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-welln…

LONDON: Please join us at the @southbankcentre on May 27 for the UK launch of Molly Crabapple's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY, a history of the Jewish Labour Bund and its resistance to Zionism. Molly will be in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum. palfest.org/full-schedule/…

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🚨 ROUTE MAP - NAKBA 78 - March for Palestine United against the Far Right ⏰ Sat, 16 May, 12PM 📍 Exhibition Road, London Join us on Saturday May 16th to for the Nakba 78 march ✊ We will march to commemorate the Nakba – for 78 years, Palestinians have been subjected to a racist system of oppression including ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism, apartheid and genocide.  We march to reaffirm our commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the refugees’ right to return home. We march against the far right in Britain who glorify Israel’s racism and brutality. Our unity and solidarity is stronger than their hatred and division. Stand with the Palestinian people whose demand for justice is as important now as ever before.

JM Coetzee was invited to the 2016 Palestine Festival of Literature. He spoke on the closing night in Ramallah. youtube.com/watch?v=uDUnim…

Job alert: we are hiring a Social Media and Communications Editor. Come work with us! palfest.org/open-positions

New on THE KEY, a piece by Amu Gib, a 30-year-old British activist who has been imprisoned for the last nine months under counterterrorism laws—and is now running for office in the upcoming council elections. "I know that electoral politics is a disguise that barely covers His Majesty's arse. The point for me is not to go into these centers of power and reform them; the point is that this government is invested in sustaining the military-industrial complex at the expense of the people it is elected to represent—so it must be challenged." Amu and four others allegedly broke into a British military airbase in central England with the group Palestine Action in June 2025. They are alleged to have damaged two refuelling planes suspected of supporting Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza. "My commitment to the movement for a free Palestine hasn't changed. What’s changed is that I find myself in prison with nothing but time in my now uncalloused hands. I don't have the choice to be in a government building, nor do I have the choice to leave one." Almost immediately after the alleged break-in to the military airbase, the British government moved to proscribe Palestine Action. "Despite these nine months in a maximum security prison, I have never once felt alone. I know that this is a gift, and a victory—a victory that makes the prison population as much my community as an area where I’ve spent my whole life, like Finsbury Park. In a system that wants to isolate me and then grind me down, I choose the collective." Read Amu Gib's full piece on The Key: thekeymagazine.com/p/amu-gib-pale…

New on THE KEY, a piece by Amu Gib, a 30-year-old British activist who has been imprisoned for the last nine months under counterterrorism laws—and is now running for office in the upcoming council elections. "I know that electoral politics is a disguise that barely covers His Majesty's arse. The point for me is not to go into these centers of power and reform them; the point is that this government is invested in sustaining the military-industrial complex at the expense of the people it is elected to represent—so it must be challenged." Amu and four others allegedly broke into a British military airbase in central England with the group Palestine Action in June 2025. They are alleged to have damaged two refuelling planes suspected of supporting Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza. "My commitment to the movement for a free Palestine hasn't changed. What’s changed is that I find myself in prison with nothing but time in my now uncalloused hands. I don't have the choice to be in a government building, nor do I have the choice to leave one." Almost immediately after the alleged break-in to the military airbase, the British government moved to proscribe Palestine Action. "Despite these nine months in a maximum security prison, I have never once felt alone. I know that this is a gift, and a victory—a victory that makes the prison population as much my community as an area where I’ve spent my whole life, like Finsbury Park. In a system that wants to isolate me and then grind me down, I choose the collective." Read Amu Gib's full piece on The Key: thekeymagazine.com/p/amu-gib-pale…