Palestine Festival of Literature
- Palestine Festival of Literature
The Palestine Festival of Literature was held in 2008, to bring a literary event of an international standard to the Palestinian people to assert "the power of culture over the culture of power." In recognition of how restricted movement is for Palestinians the Festival travels throughout Palestine, staging events in several cities.
Patrons of the Festival include Chinua Achebe, John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish,Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter. It is supported by the British Council, UNESCO, the Arab Fund for Art and Culture, the Ford Foundation and the Sigrid Rousing Foundation among others. "The Guardian" [Authors launch literary festival in cities of the West Bank, [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2278065,00.html] ] reported that "the festival may become an annual event".
Inaugural Festival
Between the 7th and 11th of May, 2008 the festival travelled to the cities of Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem - while the authors also visited Hebron. The venues included: Dar al-Tifl (Jerusalem), Al-Kasaba Theatre (Ramallah), Dar Annadwa (Bethlehem) and the Palestine National Theater (Jerusalem). The authors also ran workshops with students at Bir Zeit University and Bethlehem University.
The 15 authors in attendance of the 2008 festival were: Daniel Alarcon, Mourid Barghouti, Victoria Brittain, William Dalrymple, Roddy Doyle, Esther Freud, Nathalie Handal, Suheir Hammad, Ian Jack, Brigid Keenan, Jamal Mahjoub, Pankaj Mishra, Andrew O’Hagan, Hanan al-Shaykh, Raja Shehadeh, Ahdaf Soueif
References
External Links
* [http://www.palestinelitfest.org Official Website] - includes photos, blog and press room.
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/22/israelandthepalestinians Ahdaf Soueif in the Guardian (22.5.08)]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/17/israelandthepalestinians?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews Ian Jack in the Guardian (17.5.08)]
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