Yousef Khanfar’s Palestine Bookshelf via World Literature Today

World Literature Today- Revisiting their Palestine Voices Issue.

As we continue to amplify Palestinian voices and stories, I am reposting World Literature Today’s Palestine Voices Issue which includes a must-read Palestinian bookshelf as selected by internationally renowned, author and photographer, Yousef Khanfar.

While most writers offer their writing to the masses, Palestinian writers offer their very souls. For anything that is born from the depths of the heart has a sovereign life. They invite readers to hold up a mirror and have an honest discourse with themselves. Since the Nakba, Palestinian literature has blossomed and increased in popularity around the world. These magical narratives might not save lives, but they save souls. Courage, justice, and liberty throb in their blood and pulse in their verse and prose. Such magnificent writing and art can only be born from a nation that has been cultivated throughout the ages—colonized much, suffered much, loved much, and ripened much.

For thousands of years, storytelling has been the currency of Palestine.

Yousef Khanfar in World Literature Today
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/summer/palestine-voices-introduction-yousef-khanfar

If you are looking for a selection of Palestinian art , writing, poetry and essays, you will find it all in World Literature Today’s past issue of Palestine Voices which is accessible online. Please share widely. Our narratives in the media, literature and the arts has a direct impact on the lives of all Palestinian’s. By understanding Palestine and its people from their own voices, we can counter the dehumanisation that has led to such catastrophic events in Gaza and Palestine today. Let’s change that by amplifying and supporting Palestinian voices.

You can access the issue and the words and art of Palestinian’s featured in World Literature Today here.