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a poetic break

Posted on August 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان

…by two of my favorite poets. first suheir hammad from the palestine festival of literature that i went to a couple of months ago:

then taha muhammad ali, taken from monthly review zine:

Filed under: Apartheid, Literature, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Zionism Tagged: | monthly review zine, palestine festival of literature, Suheir Hammad, taha muhammad 'ali

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Palestine (Two Bits of Information) « Openned, on September 2, 2009 at 2:45 am said:

[...] Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of [...]

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