Title:
This is not a border : reportage & reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature / edited by Ahdaf Soueif & Omar Robert Hamilton.
Author:
Soueif, Ahdaf, editor.
Hamilton, Omar Robert, 1984- editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2017.
Call Number:
PN51 .T55 2017
Conference Subject:
Abstract:
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, "the power of culture over the culture of power." Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems, and sketches from some of the world's most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and hope in the most desperate of situations."-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
ISBN:
9781632868848
Physical Description:
x, 340 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Welcome / Where does Palestine begin? / The Gaza suite : Gaza / Jerusalem / Draw your own conclusions / Three encounters on the West Bank / Through the looking-glass / Sleeping in Gaza / Once upon a Jeusalem / Permission to enter / Privatising Allenby / Allenby border crossing / Qalandia / After ten years / Diary / India and Israel : an ideological convergence / In the company of writers / The Gaza suite : Jabaliya / Letters from Gaza / Gaza, from Cairo / From the diaspora, part one / Darkening the dramaturgy / This poem will not end apartheid / An image / Poetry and protest / Cold violence / The City of David / The writer's job / From the diaspora, part two / Equality, supremacy and security / A gift for PalFest / Silence is a language / Drawing PalFest / Diary / Until it isn't / Sight / The end of apartheid / What we witnessed / Stories from the Armenian Quarter / A scramble of authors / Bethlehem / Crucifixion / Pakistan/Palestine / Hebron / The stranglehold / The sound of a festival / South Africa and Israel : a familiar geography / The Gaza suite : Rafah / Shujaiyya dust / Gaza / A decade of writers' walks / Let your lives speak / A bus stop in London / The scattering / How to survive exile / What we talk about when we talk about Palestine / The Gaza suite : Tel El Hawa / Exit strategy / The Gaza suite : Zeitoun / The end of art is peace
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