Matthew Teller

Author • DAYBREAK IN GAZA, NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • Rep: @ampersandagency • He/him • Donate:

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

It’s my honour to announce DAYBREAK IN GAZA, out in October @SaqiBooks: Gazan voices telling Gazan stories of life, love, loss & survival—people, places, testimonies, history, memoir, poetry & art, showcasing a heritage that can never be destroyed.

Order:
https://t.co/DICVuMhSBG

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

@DaveAtCOGS Thanks so much Dave 💐💐💐

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

I had a lot of fun writing it. I hope y’all have fun reading it

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

Raja Shehadeh talking to the BBC World Service about the preservation of his archive from destruction at the hands of Israeli forces in the West Bank

(audio begins 35:13)

https://t.co/z9hoMWJvbv

image © Mariana Cook

[The Alwaleed Centre @alwaleed_centre]

The Alwaleed Centre is privileged to be part of the team including @Edu_Bookshop, @CRC_EdUni, DAME at @UniofExeter & @matthewteller who have collaborated to archive the diaries of Palestinian writer, lawyer & activist, Raja Shehadeh: https://t.co/D4bhUPaQes

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

I am crowdfunding to support Palestinian volunteers working on this historic archive. Until UK unis recruit archivists—which may not happen—volunteers in Palestine & the UK are working independently to keep the archive functional. Please donate if you can:
https://t.co/UdG9MuPHgg

[Jane Davis @janedavisauthor]

University of Edinburgh celebrates the safe arrival of Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine #BookTwitter #booklovers https://t.co/nggA6iegvj

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

I am crowdfunding to support Palestinian volunteers working on this historic archive. Until UK unis recruit archivists—which may not happen—volunteers in Palestine & the UK are working independently to keep the archive functional. Please donate if you can:
https://t.co/UdG9MuPHgg

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

The Raja Shehadeh Archive, a vital record of Palestinian history and culture, has been preserved against destruction, but now the real work begins. Please consider donating or sharing to help make this collection accessible to scholars and the public https://t.co/PbplCp38bN

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

I'm immensely proud to have played a part in this

>>'An act of resistance': Raja Shehadeh's diaries find a new home in Scotland https://t.co/M4zDH5jlVm

On 3 Sept join the public event online with Raja to mark this achievement: https://t.co/gmj4eZYxck

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

For the last 2 years, I've been directing a secret project, helping Raja Shehadeh safeguard his diaries - literally millions of words, going back six decades. It's quite a story. Join us as we tell it:

> Thu 3 Sep

> 3pm UK time

> Free to register:

https://t.co/gmj4eZYxck

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

Palestine scholars
Archivists
Contemporary social historians
Publishers
Literary folk
Arts media
and others

Save the date

Thurs 3 September
6am PDT / 9am EDT / 2pm London / 4pm Jerusalem / 11pm Sydney

Announcement coming soon

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

Take 10 minutes to listen to what this British professor of transplant surgery says about conditions today:

https://t.co/eAdd0yyN5v

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

They did this in Gaza too. The heinous inhumanity of moral corruption

>>In south Lebanon, Israeli drones use the sound of crying children to lure civilians

https://t.co/CZX99p9o1B

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

There’s lots of bigger news out there, but this feeling of finishing up one book while signing a contract for the next book is unfamiliar to me so I thought I’d use this sharing platform to share it. Now booking for 2028 🎉

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I just saw a Palestinian man holding the body of his 6-year-old daughter in Gaza, killed today by an Israeli strike on refugees in tents.

Without Palestinians on the ground and social media I wouldn’t have seen it, because mainstream Western media pretends it’s not happening.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The brilliant @rachshabi making sense of the duality of rising antisemitism & it’s weaponisation:

“It is entirely possible – in fact vital– to hold compassion for a fearful Jewish minority facing violent antisemitism, while rejecting the way such fears can be manipulated for political ends.”

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

Leipzig University students vote to boycott

https://t.co/3ms6UmTxVF

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

@Mou_shumi Oh wonderful! Thank you so much

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

New book: FINDING ALADDIN celebrates a Syrian storyteller who was almost lost to history. Hanna Diab created Aladdin, only to be betrayed by those he trusted—and then erased from his own story. I'm overturning 300 years of injustice. Order now: https://t.co/DICVuMhSBG

[Matthew Teller @matthewteller]

People matter more than books or stones - but books (and stones) matter too https://t.co/cX4Wkq6u6y