Palestine Festival of Literature

Our new bi-monthly magazine, THE KEY, publishes every other Thursday.

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people.

This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history.

https://t.co/SGewfi4DYn

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

WHERE TO LAY THIS HEART, New Poetry Anthology, Mohammed Moussa, E-Book
https://t.co/7Ii3zrMDnd

[Sophie Lewis @reproutopia]

I have a big piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; & Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

To help us continue to publish important, high quality work like this essay, please consider subscribing to The Key: https://t.co/pWzeMt0PKp

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[Rahul Rao @thariel]

Indispensable, harrowing essay by @reproutopia

“The obsessive framing of Palestinian men as rape-obsessed monsters is designed to shield Israel from criticism, and to distract from the barely hidden, monumental scale of Israeli sexual brutality.”

https://t.co/jS7QdbDByI

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

“I am no longer an intellectual. My favorite artist is Ms. Rachel” – @zanpansky
https://t.co/l31kMLqCgs

[Ghassan Zaqtan @GhassanZaqtan]

See this Instagram post by @palfest https://t.co/lDltWDPy5B

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

“I am trying to say something unfashionable, which is that there is such a thing as a soul and that one can lose it when they do something they know to be evil, no matter how small that evil is.”
https://t.co/JtmgFX1pP3

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

First up in the latest edition of The Key: @reproutopia with a phenomenal essay examining how the use of sexual violence to dominate and dehumanize Palestinians is core to Israel’s colonial project
https://t.co/D3xc5plsvx

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

I want to thank @taraalami for speaking to The Key for this story and the Palestine Feminist Collective for their damning report on Israel's systemic, sexualized violence against Palestinians.

You can (and should) read it here: https://t.co/4kiGZIkbGw

https://t.co/p0vpUoRxAB

[Ahdaf Soueif @asoueif]

Read Hisham Matar's brilliant and pertinent new introduction to Edward Said's Out of Place, with photos provided exclusively to @PalFest 's The Key by Mariam Said. https://t.co/JQsw052FGT

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

Where to Lay This Heart is a powerful fourth volume of poetry by Mohammed Moussa. Containing nearly 200 poems that confront loss across the land, the body, and the soul, this 2026 collection is brought to you by the Gaza Poets Society.

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

We're honoured to publish Hisham Matar's new foreword to the upcoming re-issue of Edward Said's OUT OF PLACE, featuring some wonderful photographs shared with us by Mariam Said.

https://t.co/gzGGsjhTKQ

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

We are honored to publish Hisham Matar's new introduction to the re-issue of “Out of Place,” Edward Said’s beloved and enduring autobiography

(including previously unpublished family photos of Said, shared with The Key by his family)
https://t.co/cRtfqEbGLp

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

Hey all. Gaza Publications (https://t.co/6acyzvf28N) needs a small grant to help bring out Bissan Natil's memoir, "صاحب حذاء البحر".

Honestly we will just find the money but if you want to help out or know someone who might pitch in, let us know.

https://t.co/1NdPvn8jEx

[Jake Romm @jake_romm]

read this and then let this image break you

[Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

"Walid Daqqa Is Still Here" -- Sanaa Salameh sits down with Tala Halawa for The Key to talk about carrying her husband's legacy, the prison movement, and the release of his first major posthumous work, "The Ticket Seller."

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

Thank you to everyone who has spoken to me! I just need 5-10 more folks to round this out. I'm looking to speak to people who were working in newsrooms after Oct 7 in the US, Canada and the UK
https://t.co/mXGcKH3zWx

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

FIFA and its hosts erased Palestine from the tournament, but fans and players made it impossible to ignore. via THE KEY @PalFest

https://t.co/W2OAV01AQH

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Sanaa Salameh sits down with The Key to talk about carrying her husband, Walid Daqqa's legacy, the prison movement, and the release of his posthumous autobiography, "The Ticket Seller."

https://t.co/2vrRZckAjZ

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

There’s no other book like this @PalFest

Through collected testimonies survivors of Israel’s campaign of extermination describe the unspeakable: the mass atrocities & depravity of a regime that’s bombed, incinerated, maimed & tortured them in their homes & hospitals

A holocaust