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[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

The incredible Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein with Who Will Speak For The Men Of Gaza.
All thanks to the unbelievable kindness of friends, and people I haven’t met, who have given this book wings and such love.

[Ananke | AnankeWLF @anankemag]

.@BibaT_Abbas exclusively shares an excerpt to commemorate Ananke's 10th!
"We write the way we live, and we write the way we speak and don’t speak. Words gather up behind my tongue, a dark river, coiled, seeking a different outlet on my body."
Link: https://t.co/jwjVt4oM3I

[Ananke | AnankeWLF @anankemag]

Hot off the press... check out our special edition, celebrating 10 years of change making with thought provoking pieces penned by eminent names in publishing, tech, development and more
@BibaT_Abbas @mfhusayn @aminayaqin @arpitayodapress @SabaKarim @SabynJaveri @anniezaidi

[Ananke | AnankeWLF @anankemag]

Unveiling thougt provoking pieces penned by distinguished authors, publishers and writers @aekta
@mfhusayn @BibaT_Abbas and also our very own @critoe to commemorate Ananke's 10th anniversary

Out in Jan 2025

@seagullbooks @PrivyTrifles @anniezaidi @NaimaRashid_ @beenasarwar

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

One year today. May this beautiful, brilliant, beloved family be smiling down with the knowledge of that eternal peace and freedom that is now theirs. Rest in infinite glory @Maisara_Alrayes 🇵🇸

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

If our names are not joined with Palestine now, no writer in the world should ever have the right to wield a single word ever again.

Proud and grateful to have my name among the signatories of this letter.
@lithub @pubforpalestine

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

“Everything genuine reminds me of you, Heba.”

Heba Abu Nada, the beloved Palestinian poet and novelist, was killed in Gaza one year ago.

For @lithub, Heba’s younger sister, Somaia, has written this beautiful remembrance.

https://t.co/zFqqfyTEGc

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

This, and every other story from and about Palestine, erased from Netflix in a flash. Because this is how much they fear the people they’re burning alive

[The News on Sunday @TheNewsonSunday]

The invincibly resistant https://t.co/PSGAsimxpe

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

Deeply grateful for this sensitive and heartfelt review by Qurat Ul Ain Khalil, published today.
Thank you @wajihahyder @thenews_intl
https://t.co/0Wf0tCa8bK

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

A beautiful vital tribute. A scholarship launched in @Maisara_Alrayes’s name at his alma mater King’s College London.

[Peninsula Press @PressPeninsula]

We strongly endorse this letter, from hundreds of international publishers, calling on the Frankfurt Book Fair to publicly denounce and cut ties with Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime 🇵🇸

[Osama Siddique @DrOsamaSiddique]

Still honing your craft? Apply to the Salam Award workshop by Sept 7! https://t.co/WZMtIHJ6KV

A great initiative by friend & highly accomplished writer @usmantm.
Pls spread the word @BibaT_Abbas @FaiqaMansab @AwaisKhanAuthor @microMAF @Razarumi @MehvashAmin @mariamtee

[Liberty Books @LibertyBooks_]

A poignant, heartfelt and richly illustrated ode to one of the thousands of invaluable and remarkably brave lives taken away in Gaza.

Order Now: https://t.co/jTzwUMaa7A

#Gaza #Palestine @BibaT_Abbas #mustread #libertybooks

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

Image after image, video after video of children ripped to shreds.
"Childhood is the target of the Israeli army." One would think these words were said today. But they weren’t.
He said this in 2014. Ten years ago.

[Àla Books and Authors 🇵🇸 @AlaBooksAuthors]

@BibaT_Abbas @orbooks @ConsortiumBooks

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

The e-book version is free and available to download at https://t.co/G0nX5UylLM and will remain so.

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

Apologies if I haven’t been able to respond to everyone over here. The book is currently only available in Pakistan, but if you email me your order at https://t.co/G0nX5UylLM it will be shipped internationally.

@pubforpalestine I am looking for resellers in the UK & US who’d be

[Taiba Abbas @BibaT_Abbas]

Grateful to everyone who ordered the book, who contributed so generously, and made the memories inside these pages a part of their homes and their identity.

Copies are still available in bookstores across Pakistan, and you can order directly from me by DM or email.