Oppression is not a point of view
March 13, 2025 The great twentieth-century poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on this day in 1941. Today, author-translator Alaa Alqaisi shares a letter to Darwish and a poem, after Darwish’s “In Praise of the High Shadow.” In Praise of What Is No Longer Ours By Alaa Alqaisi In ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly This poem is in response to
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Editors, The Black Agenda Review 21 Aug 2024 If you have not yet read Marina Magloire’s stunning essay “Moving Towards Life ,” you should. It is a lucid, eloquent, and fantastically-researched piece on June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and the politics of friendship and Black solidarity with Palestine. Magloire demonstrates in jaw-dropping fashion the efforts of certain so-called progressives to
» Read moreJuly 29, 2014 Nathalie Handal Gaza Once in a tiny strip dark holes swallowed hearts and one child told another withdraw your breath whenever the night wind is no longer a land of dreams The Gazans I died before I lived I lived once in a grave
» Read moreJul 31 2014 By Ramona Wadi International abandonment a horizon exploding in hideous light beneath the massacred canopy echoes of footsteps, voices, laments the tapestry unravels, threads suffocating street corners, pavements, rubble and sand melting faces dissipating in kaleidoscopic chronology smeared with crimson hues parched land, resistant territory tears trailing from
» Read moreMichael Rosen Thursday 24 July 2014 Israel bans radio advert listing names of children killed in Gaza (Guardian 24.07.14) Don’t mention the children. Don’t name the dead children. The people must not know the name of the dead children. The names of the children must be hidden. The children must
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