New Solidarities: Beyond Frontiers: Renewing Solidarity with Palestine

(Paperback)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

A call to think differently and more concretely about the practice of solidarity, and a window into the world of possibility that true solidarity can grant us, defiantly insisting on the recognition and celebration of Palestines past, present, and future.

How do we confront the need to take inevitable and often difficult political stances How do we make sense of the destruction, uprooting, and pain that we witness Given our seemingly impossible reality, how is mutuality constructed In this anthology, thoughtfully arranged and introduced by editor and co-curator of the Palestine Festival of Literature, Madhdi Sabbagh, the essays speak to readers in any and all stages of witnessing structural violence, attempting mutuality work, and persevering against all odds.

The ten contributing authors each cover a world of ideas, bringing their diverse intellectual and geographic backgrounds to the forefront. Grouped into three sectionsChoices under Siege, Witnessing, and Mutualitythe writers share their political choice-making, perceptive vision, and efforts at mutual understanding.

Author Bio

Mahdi Sabbagh is a writer, architect, and urbanist from Jerusalem. He is a co-curator of PalFest, the Palestine Festival of Literature. His work has been published in the Journal of Public Culture, Jerusalem Quarterly, Architecture of the Territory (Kaph Books, 2022), Open Gaza (AUC Press, 2021), The Funambulist, Arab Urbanism, and PLATFORM. He is a 2023 Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. Mahdi is a PhD student at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Architecture from Yale.