BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31462@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230922T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230924T200000 DTSTAMP:20230729T124629Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/palestine-writes-literature-festiva l-2/ SUMMARY:Palestine Writes Literature Festival DESCRIPTION:"Three years after Covid-19 forced the inaugural Palestine Writ es Festival to be held virtually\, the only Palestinian literature festiva l in North America is back with an impressive list of writers\, artists\, musicians\, dancers\, filmmakers\, and other intellectuals. The festival w ill be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Irvine Auditori um on September 22-24\, 2023. One-off events will also take place in the d ays leading up to the festival’s opening on Friday.\n\nSpeakers include Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Arabic Booker Prize winner Ibrah im Nasrallah\, celebrated filmmaker Darin Sallam\, rock music legend Roger Waters\, and dozens more renowned authors\, such as Elias Khoury\, Huzama Habayeb\, Isabella Hammad\, Sahar Mustafah\, Suad Amiry\, Salman AbuSitta \, Gary Younge\, Nur Masalha\, and more.\n\nThe festival will be bilingual \, with simultaneous translation for most sessions. The program and speake r list are published online\, featuring 1) continuous children and YA prog ramming\; 2) Coffee &\; Books sessions\; 3) Panel discussions\; 4) Plen aries\; 5) Hakawati oral storytelling\; 6) An art exhibit\; 7) Workshops\; 8) Presentations\; 9) A film screening\, and\; 10) Live performances.\n\n Some highlights of the festival include:\n\nThe Cost and Rewards of Friend ship. A discussion with Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Gary Younge\, Roger Waters\, a nd Rachel Holmes on what it means to live ethically and in solidarity with Palestinian in the midst of an empire that holds Palestinian in contempt. \n\nThe Novel as a Historic Record. Lebanese writer Elias Khoury\, Aborigi nal Australian writer Ali Cobby Eckerman\, and Viet Thanh Nguyen will talk about the ways in which novels correct\, obfuscate\, reinvent\, or destab ilize history.\n\nFilm director Darin Sallam\, creator of Farha\, a ground -breaking Palestinian film that streamed on Netflix and was Jordan’s sub mission for the Oscars\, will talk about her film and Palestinian cinema i n general.\n\nPalestinian chefs Fadi Kattan\, owner of Fawda Restaurant an d akub London\, and co-author of Craving Palestine\, and Reem Assil\, owne r of Reem’s California and author of Arabiyyeh\, will talk about Palesti nian cuisine\, food appropriation\, and agricultural traditions cultivated over centuries in Palestine.\n\nAl Ajaweed Dabke Troupe\, traveling to Ph iladelphia from the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqa’a in Jordan\, will perform Palestinian traditional line dance to folkloric songs.\n\n \;\ n\nThe Festival will be the most dynamic gathering of Palestinian creative s in North America. In addition\, the newly formed Palestine Writes Press will launch its first book\, a translation and reprint of Ghassan Kanafani \, at the Festival\; the book was written by the Palestinian legendary wri ter’s widow\, Anni Kanafani\, and will feature a new foreword by Kanafan i’s childhood friend Dr. Fadle Naqib\, and an introduction by scholar an d historian Louis Allday. The Press also plans to release an anthology of fiction\, poetry\, and other creative prose by Palestinians across the dia spora in 2024.\n\nABOUT PALESTINE WRITES\n\nPalestine Writes is the only N orth American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting c ultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Born from the perv asive exclusion or tokenization of Palestinian voices in mainstream litera ry institutions\, Palestine Writes brings Palestinian cultural workers fro m all parts of Historic Palestine and our exiled Diaspora together with pe ers from other marginalized groups in the United States. Crossing multiple borders—geographic\, linguistic\, generational\, and cultural boundarie s—writers\, artists\, publishers\, booksellers\, scholars\, musicians\, and thinkers hold conversations about art\, literature\, and the intersect ions between culture and power\, struggle\, politics\, climate change\, se xuality\, human rights\, animal rights\, food sovereignty\, and more." 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