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Wordless Wednesday: PalFest Takes Writers into Gaza City

Published May 9, 2012

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif with students at Al Aqsa University

This week I’m traveling with PalFest, the festival of literature that goes into Palestine to bring authors to readers who are restricted in their movements. In its fifth year, authors, and bloggers have gone into Gaza to hold workshops, fora, and other interactive activities. Stay tuned for more.

A Light in the Darkness(mohanalakshmi.com)
No books, no writers, no words for Gaza(mondoweiss.net)
PalFest 2012 Arrives in Gaza(arablit.wordpress.com)

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Mohana Rajakumar

Mohana has a PhD from the University of Florida with a focus on gender and postcolonial theory. She is the creator and co-editor of five books in the Qatar Narratives series, as well as the Qatari Voices anthology which features essays by Qataris on modern life in Doha (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2010). Mohana has published several ebooks and academic titles. Check out her Amazon.com author page

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