Preti Taneja

On #Palestine and speaking up, publishing and prison, and some important writing by Khawla Ibraheem, Ahed Tamimi + @dena, and three from @hajarpress: a piece I've been working on since June 2023. With thanks to @PalFest, @wwborders, @taraktobler wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Don’t look away

To all friends In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world: • A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary: bit.ly/3yp2nBI bit.ly/2SSpMeC bit.ly/3f0KK3P • "Keeper of Memory" documentary: youtu.be/eywuYeflWzg • "Empty Seat" documentary: youtu.be/an4hRFWOSQQ • "Resistance Pilot" documentary: youtu.be/wqSmdZy-Xcg • "Jenin" documentary: vimeo.com/499672067 • "The Olive Tree" documentary: vimeo.com/432062498 • "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973: youtu.be/1JlIwmnYnlE • Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom": youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s • Documentary "Arna's Children": youtu.be/cQZiHgbBBcI • Short Film "Strawberry": vimeo.com/209189656/e551… • Short Film "The Place": youtu.be/fgcIVhNvsII • Documentary "The Mayor": youtu.be/aDvOnhssTcc • Documentary "The Creation and the Nakba 1948": youtu.be/Bwy-Rf15UIs • Documentary "Occupation" 101": youtu.be/C56QcWOGSKk • "The Shadow of Absence" Documentary: vimeo.com/220119035 • "The Don't Exist" Documentary: youtu.be/2WZ_7Z6vbsg • "As The Poet Said" Documentary: vimeo.com/220116068 • "Five Broken Cameras" Documentary: youtu.be/TZU9hYIgXZw • "Paradise Now" Feature Film: vimeo.com/510883804 • "Abnadam" Short Film: youtu.be/I--r85cOoXM • "Wedding of Galilee": youtu.be/dYMQw7hQI1U • The feature film "Keffiyeh": vimeo.com/780695653 • The documentary film "Slingshot Hip Hop": youtu.be/hHFlWE3N9Ik • The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar": youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI • The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle": youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI • The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance": youtu.be/htJ10ACWQJM • The documentary film "Swings": youtu.be/gMk-Zi9vTGs • The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision: youtu.be/Y31yUi4WVsU • "The Upper Gate" Documentary: vimeo.com/433362585 • "In Search of Palestine" Documentary: vimeo.com/184213685?1 • "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film: bit.ly/3c10G3Z • "Speak, Bird" Documentary: youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q • "The Palestinian Exodus" Series: bit.ly/3bXNAVp • "I Am Jerusalem" Series: bit.ly/3hG8sDV

Honored that “The Book of Disappearance” is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! Thanks to everyone at And Other Stories @andothertweets, especially @taraktobler, @stefantobler, and @PretiTaneja and grateful to @sinanantoon for his wonderful translation!

Congratulations to @IbtisamAzem and @sinanantoon, as The Book of Disappearance is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! ✨ An unforgettable glimpse into contemporary Palestine as it grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-bo…

📝 The Finchale Award for Short Fiction offers £1000 to the writer of a single, unpublished short story. This award was established by @BenMyers1, and this year will be judged by @paulsmithmusic and @PretiTaneja.

@NamitaGokhale_ Thank you so much ☺️

Congratulations @PretiTaneja

Publishing Aftermath in India this month with @sayantansunnyg @SimonSchusterIN, grateful always for the courageous editors and radical publishers, and all the readers who believe in this book 🙏🏾

Entrepreneur, housewife, partner, mother – it can happen to all four. @PretiTaneja explores domestic abuse in the North East by speaking to charities and services who work with women across social strata and age groups. Read Preti's North East Now essay: newwritingnorth.com/journal/north-…

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…

Publishers: #PENTranslates is open for submissions until 30 November! The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works into English, while ensuring translators are acknowledged and paid properly for their work. englishpen.org/translation/pe…

PEN Presents x International Booker Prize is open! This round of our samples grant is in partnership with @TheBookerPrizes, & is open to translators from the Global Majority working from any language & region. Apply by 30 November, & spread the word. englishpen.org/translation/pe…

Tonight at our #PENCongress Opening Ceremony , we will honour the life and work of Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian writer, poet, and academic, who was killed alongside his family in an Israeli airstrike on 7 December 2023. Alareer dedicated his life to amplifying the voices of Gazans through literature, promoting their struggle for liberation and human dignity. His powerful collections, Gaza Writes Back and Gaza Unsilenced, serve as testaments to the resilience of a people under occupation. Watch live as we commemorate the life of Alareer via the livestream from 19:30 BST: @PENInternationalable" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@PENInternatio…

Join us as we launch our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, on 28 September @MuseumoftheHome, London –– featuring readings from contributors @Malikabooker, @PretiTaneja, and @anniezaidi 😍 wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

Swedish PEN awards the 2024 Tucholsky Prize to the Yemeni writer and journalist Bushra al-Maqtari. svenskapen.se/senaste-nytt/2… You can read her beautiful, devastating "What Have You Left Behind?" tr. @sawadhussain

Brand new programme for the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA)! Join @NCLA_tweets for the first in this exciting scheudule. 🗓️3 October @TanTwanEng in conversation with @PretiTaneja to discuss his celebrated work, 'The House of Doors'. Book > bit.ly/3B7nbDP

“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…

Over £60,000 has been raised for a carer who finished a 12hr shift to find his car had been flipped & burned during riots in Middlesborough on Sunday. Brendan Nwabichie, 33, said he had been saving for 12 months to buy the vehicle itv.com/news/tyne-tees…

The love, hope, strength and solidarity of the people of Newcastle is once again a wonder to behold!

the antifascist crowd is MASSIVE in newcastle tonight!

Now’s the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues. In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe. A thread: