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SHARING A POST THAT WE RECEIVED NOTE FROM PUBLISHERS OF PALESTINE. ON THIS NOTE WE ARE SHARING A FEW PAGES FROM ONE OF OUR BESTSELLERS, A WORK VERY CLOSE TO US: MEMORIES OF ARRIVAL (SHARED A FEW EXTRACTS WHICH WE FEEL IS RELEVANT WHEN ATROCITIES ARE PERPETRATED WITH A DELIBERATE MOTIVE: 'humiliation, sorrows and tribulations... are not borne of fate, but rather are the direct consequence of structural violence....'
NOTE FROM PUBLISHERS OF PALESTINE:
Hello publishers,
Thank you for being part of Publishers for Palestine. There are now more than 500 of us!
As you know, we’re organising Read Palestine Week 2024, Nov. 29 to Dec. 5. Like last year, during Read Palestine Week (which starts on Nov. 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People) we will urge readers to read fiction and poetry by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors, and nonfiction about Palestinian history, politics, arts, culture, and life, as well as books about organising, resistance, and solidarity for a Free Palestine. We will encourage readers to post on social media about their favourite Palestine books, to quote from their favourite authors, and to make learning more about Palestine an act of solidarity, using the hashtags , and .
This year, the message will turn more to action and disruption. We will urge readers, as poet Rasha Abdulhadi has written, to "wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now."
How can you participate? We need your books!
We’re creating a Free Palestine Reading List of e-books that will be offered for free download from Nov. 29-Dec. 5. We are asking publishers who have signed the P4P solidarity statement to submit up to three titles that they will offer for free download, and we will include them on the reading list with a link to your book’s webpage. (You can see last year's reading list here.)
We want your fiction or poetry written by authors who are Palestinian or in the Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian children's books; or non-fiction about the history of Palestine, Palestine and global politics, Palestinian arts and culture, Palestinian food and agriculture (including cookbooks!), Palestinian lives (memoir and biography); and organising, resistance, and solidarity for a free Palestine.
Books can be published in any language. Publishers are invited to submit up to three titles.
Please obtain consent from your authors first and find ways to compensate them for their work. The donation of ebooks for free download during Read Palestine Week is meant to be a donation made by the publisher and not by the author.
Submit your entry using this form. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, Nov. 10, 17:00 EDT.
What if you don’t have a book about Palestine or by a Palestinian author. Can you still participate?
Yes! We’ll need you to help spread the word when we publicly launch the Read Palestine Week campaign in November. We’ll send another email next month to let you know how you can help amplify the message.
We’re also reaching out to indie bookstores and librarians, asking them to join us by creating Read Palestine displays and social media posts. If you have connections with indie bookshops and librarians in your community, we would love you to reach out. They can contact us at this email address if they want to know more.
Solidarity,
the Publishers for Palestine planning committee
