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We will gather on May 15th at The People’s Forum for a night of readings to commemorate 76 years of the Nakba and to stand in solidarity with Palestine. Nakba Then and Now: Refuse Silence invites you to raise your voice, amplify the Palestinian liberation struggle, and demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The growing list of participants includes Ibtisam Azem, Maaza Mengiste, Najla Said, Mona Eltahawy, Suha Araj, Hafsa Kanjwal, Emna Zghal, Christina Dhanuja, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Anthony Alessandrini, Anna Arabindan Kesson, Zohra Saed, Siddhartha Deb, Sean Jacobs, Jee Leong Koh, Christopher Stone, Suchitra Vijayan and Bhakti Shringarpure. Register...

On December 2nd, participants in our “Reading Palestine” session shared and read out these powerful poems. We have assembled them all here... Traveling Tickets I Grant You Refuge  

Why is publishing so white? North American and European publishing structures remain overwhelmingly and disproportionately white and are entirely anchored in a handful of corporate entities which get to decide whose stories proliferate in the world today. Color of Publishing is our three-part series focused on this crisis, and we have gathered perspectives from publishing professionals in the United States (Elizabeth Méndez Berry & Porsche Burke) and the United Kingdom (Margaret Busby & Ellah P. Wakatama). In the first episode, Radical Books Collective co-founders, Bhakti Shringarpure and Suchitra Vijayan start with a debrief of the 2022 PEN America report on publishing titled...

We're excited to launch our new podcast and web series called MEHFIL which explores a wide range of themes within South Asian culture Hosted by Dr. Amrita Ghosh, the first season features literature, film, cuisine, ghosts and translation.  Listen to all the episodes on our podcast, the BookRising! The Mehfil series is also available on our YouTube Channel! Watch here👇🏿 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstXMEF0r05bQb1vjBwhvCn02dmMX4vP