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#ReadPalestineWeek Day 7
So many books to read about Palestine

This is a book that will fill the reader with "what ifs"
Palestine-Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter

The last paragraphs in the book, published in 2006, are heart-breaking⤵️
Front cover of Jimmy Carter's book: Palestine - Peace Not Apartheid Last paragraphs in book: "The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of the majority of its own citizens - and honour its own previous commitments - by accepting legal borders. All Arab neighbours must pledge to honour Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international presstige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonisation of Palestinian territories. It will be a tragedy - for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world - if peace is rejected and a system of oppression, apartheid, and sustained violence is permitted to prevail."
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent
Painting of a white woman in a long grey coat, red scarf and black hat walking to the left in a snowy rural setting with her two cats
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 6
Four by Ghada Karmi
My favourite & most moving is In Search of Fatima
#BookSky
Book cover: In search of Fatima - A Palestinian Story, by Ghada Karmi Book cover: Return - A Palestinian Memoir, by Ghada Karmi Book cover: Married to Another Man, by Ghada Karmi Book cover: One State - The only democratic future for Palestine-Israel, by Ghada Karmi
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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neomfa.bsky.social
“No One Knows Their Blood Type” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, trans. by Hazem Jamjoum, published by the CSU Poetry Center, is the winner of the 2025 Palestine Book Award in Translation 💫

Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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teleogougar.bsky.social
For #readpalestineweek, im returning here again. It took me so long to find a copy of this but I’m glad I have one. May your memory be eternal, Refaat Alareer.
A copy of Refaat Alareer’s poetry and prose collection “If I Must Die.” A white silhouette of a kite, alluding to his poem of the same name, flies above the title over a dark and red cloudy sky
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 5
Visualising Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, Yosra El

via Visualizing Palestine [https://visualizingpalestine.org/]
#BookSky
Front cover of book: Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 4
Palestine: A personal history, Karl Sabbagh
#BookSky
Front cover of Karl Sabbagh's book: Palestine - A Personal History Back cover of same book - summary: Palestinians feature regularly in news headlines, but their country is much less known. In this humane and deeply compelling book, Karl Sabbagh traces Palestine and Palestinians from their roots in the mélange of tribes, ethnic groups, and religions that have populated the region for centuries, and describes how, as a result of the interplay of global power politics, the majority of Palestinians were expelled from their home to make way for the new Jewish state of Israel. Palestine: A Personal History offers a sympathetic portrait of the country's rich heritage as well as evidence of the long-standing harmony between Arabs (Muslim and Christian) and the small indigenous Jewish population in Palestine. Karl Sabbagh has written both a transporting narrative and a meditation on a region that remains a flashpoint of conflict--a story of how past choices and actions reverberate in the present day.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 3
What does Israel fear from Palestine?, Raja Shehadeh
#BookSky
Book cover of Raja Shehadeh's book: What does Israel fear from Palestine? MEDIA REVIEWS An attempt to understand Israeli actions in Gaza, and a lament that the Palestinian story is still not properly heard ... [Shehadeh's] searching analysis offers insights for readers coming new to the situation and others who wish to face it afresh - 'Book of the Day', Guardian A slim, powerful work ... details the devastating consequences of the siege [of Gaza] - New Statesman Measured, lawyerly but always very readable... As the book comes to a close, as if summoning a last reserve of strength, [Shehadeh] manages a message of hope. Perhaps, he writes, the utter nightmarishness of the past few months may achieve what decades of war and negotiation have failed to resolve: a lasting peace - Observer Elegantly written ... suffused with anger without descending into bitterness - Irish Times An exceptionally lucid account of the underlying causes of the war in Gaza ... [Shehadeh] writes with so much humanity, recounting the story with neither rancour nor despair. This book will be particularly valuable for political education. Highly recommended all round. - Morning Star Praise for Raja Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi - New York Times A buoy in a sea of bleakness - Rachel Kushner Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise - Colm Tóibín Palestine's greatest prose writer - Observer Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion - Prospect
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 2
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile, by Mohammad Tarbush
#BookSky
Front cover of book: My Palestine: An Impossible Exile, by Mohammad Tarbush Back cover of same book with reviews
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 1
Recognising the stranger: On Palestine & narrative, by Isabella Hammad
Book cover of Isabella Hammad’s book: Recognising the stranger: On Palestine & narrative. Back cover of same book with reviewers’ comments
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Showings in the UK and Ireland. Get your tickets, now.

Annemarie Jacir’s emotionally stirring drama follows a year of brutal conflict in the Middle East with a huge cast of characters caught up in the turmoil

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Watched this today

Amazing, emotional - important film … Philistine Films, Annemarie Jacir, cast & everyone who contributed to making of this film… thank you

A must watch
#Palestine

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtw...
PALESTINE 36 | Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas 31 October
YouTube video by Curzon
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Honestly, if you’re not listening to this podcast… you must give it a go - been a fan since it started in 2022 with its first episode on the East India Company
@empirepoduk.bsky.social
@willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social are amazing hosts
willdalrymple.bsky.social William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · Oct 28
Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series-
WRITERS ON EMPIRE

We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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willdalrymple.bsky.social
Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series-
WRITERS ON EMPIRE

We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
we are nearing the point where our robots can take your dog for a nice little hike while listening to your favorite playlist, giving you more time on the weekends for the important things like making sales calls
October 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Cartoon showing image of St George replying to calls to return to England: “I am St George of Cappodocia, Turkiye, son of St Pochirhonica of Palestine and St Gerontias of Syria. I have been summoned by your undying loyalty to my name.” He returns but is being shouted at to “get out of England”
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon
The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Re: Keir Starmer: “but you can't admin your way out of unpopularity”, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Sept 2025

Love that - so on the nose👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Sep 26
Which means digital ID - a system for tapping everyone in and out - is the proposed solution, but you can't admin your way out of unpopularity. For very different reasons, neither the libertarian right nor the more inclusive left want managerial authoritarianism.
September 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
I really hope the Starmer speech on patriotic renewal is better than this summary of it, which basically argues that New Labour and the Tories let in too many immigrsnts but this one is going to give you a youth club instead so please don’t vote Reform www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...
The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control
Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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alanlester.bsky.social
‘What would Orwell think’, Musk had on his T-shirt. My guess is he’d think Musk is a master of Doublespeak. A man who bought his own Ministry of Truth and embodies some of the nightmarish developments he anticipated.
September 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
When I finish a book, I sometimes take a deep breath & hold it close to me… hugging it, knowing it will stay with me. I feel I know the characters & their lives, & in the days to come I’ll catch myself wondering how they’re doing.
This is one of those books.
🙏🏽 Christy Lefteri
#BookSky 📚
Front cover of Christy Lefteri’s book: The Beekeeper of Aleppo. A cracked, pale blue background with black & white image of a mosque outline, including minaret. In the foreground is a pair of hands creating a cup around a bee in flight
September 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Eyal Weizman from Forensic Architecture: "Genocide denial is what enables genocide"
September 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Day 2 #GazaTribunal
Worth your while
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezu5...
The Gaza Tribunal - Day Two
YouTube video by Project for Peace & Justice by Jeremy Corbyn
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
samarbetmouni.bsky.social
Day 1 of Gaza Tribunal was excellent
Day 2 tomorrow worth following

thegazatribunal.uk
The Gaza Tribunal: Inquiry into War Crimes | The Gaza Tribunal
Explore The Gaza Tribunal's official site for information on Britain's complicity in Israeli war crimes. Watch the tribunal proceedings and stay informed about this critical inquiry into justice and a...
thegazatribunal.uk
September 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM