Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states. It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region. Palestine shares most of its borders with Israel, and it borders Jordan to the east and Egypt to the southwest. It has a total land area of 6,020 square kilometres (2,320 sq mi) while its population exceeds five million people. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Ramallah serves as its administrative center. Gaza City was its largest city prior to evacuations in 2023.
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.
Fadwa Tuqan was a Palestinian poet known for her representations of resistance to Israeli occupation in contemporary Arab poetry. She has sometimes been referred to as the "Poet of Palestine".
Taha Muhammad Ali was a Palestinian poet.
The book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by former president Jimmy Carter has been highly controversial and attracted a wide range of commentary. The reception of the book has itself raised further controversy, occasioning Carter's own subsequent responses to such criticism.
Cinema of Palestine refers to films made in Palestine and/or by Palestinian filmmakers. Palestinian films are not exclusively produced in Arabic and some are produced in English and French.
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a 501(c)(3) Pro-Palestinian non-profit advocacy organization.
Samīħ al-Qāsim al Kaissy was a Palestinian poet with Israeli citizenship whose work is well known throughout the Arab world. He was born in Transjordan and later lived in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Before the Six-Day War in 1967 he was mainly influenced by Arab nationalism; after the war he joined the Israeli Communist Party.
Suheir Hammad is an American poet, author, and political activist.
Palestinian literature refers to the Arabic language novels, short stories and poems produced by Palestinians. Forming part of the broader genre of Arabic literature, contemporary Palestinian literature is often characterized by its heightened sense of irony and the exploration of existential themes and issues of identity. References to the subjects of resistance to occupation, exile, loss, and love and longing for homeland are also common.
Annemarie Jacir is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and producer.
Tamim Al-Barghouti is a Palestinian-Egyptian poet, columnist and political scientist. Nicknamed the "poet of Jerusalem", he is one of the most widely read poets in the Arab World. He received his PhD degree in political science from Boston University in 2004. He grew up in a family interested in Arabic literature. His father was the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti from the Deir Ghassana village, and his mother is the Egyptian novelist and political writer Radwa Ashour.
Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian/Lebanese American playwright, screenwriter and theater director whose work tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism, displacement and war. He is best known for the plays Tennis in Nablus (2010) and Truth Serum Blues (2005) and the critically-acclaimedReturning to Haifa, which premiered in London in 2018. Tennis in Nablus received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award and the Quest for Peace Playwriting Award. Since then his plays have been produced and presented internationally and published in half a dozen anthologies.
Deema Shehabi is a Palestinian poet and writer. She has widely published in journals and wrote her first book of poetry in 2011. It was followed by an anthology which she co-edited in 2012 in response to the bombing of Baghdad's historic literary district and in 2014 a collaboration with another exiled poet of a collection of renga-style poems.
The Akron Poetry Prize is an annual contest held by The University of Akron Press. The competition is open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives an honorarium of $1,500 and publication of his or her book in the Akron Series in Poetry. The final selection is made by a nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2017 was Oliver de la Paz. Other manuscripts may also be considered for publication by Series Editor Mary Biddinger. Past editor's choice selections have included books by John Gallaher, David Dodd Lee, and Sarah Perrier.
George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet. He is the author of Birthright and the specimen's apology. Abraham is the Executive Editor of Mizna.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of five works of poetry: Letters from the Interior ; the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner Water & Salt ; the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner Arab in Newsland, Kaan and Her Sisters, finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award. Her collection Something About Living, was winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry from University of Akron Press. Khalaf Tuffaha is the recipient of a 2019 Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Hayden's Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. Khalaf Tuffaha holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington and an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Based in Washington, Khalaf Tuffaha has also served as spokesperson for the Seattle chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Lutfi Zaghloul is a Palestinian poet. He was born in Nablus, the eldest son of the late Palestinian poet Abdul Latif Zaghloul. Zaghloul's poetic talent began in Al-Hayat School, where he wrote his first poem about Palestine, and during which he acquired the title "Emerging Poet" by a teacher of Arabic at his school. He is also one of the first poets to have a website that contains the majority of his works.
Maya Abu Al-Hayat (1980) is a Palestinian novelist, poet, storyteller, and translator, born in Beirut. She has published three novels and three collections of poetry. Her books have gained worldwide recognition, and some of her stories have been translated into different languages. Abu Al-Hayat also worked as an actress and ran the Palestine Writing Workshop. Abu Al-Hayat played a prominent role in children's literature, writing and presenting television programs for children, including "Iftah Ya Simsim," and was distinguished by her writing of children's stories.
[...] is a poetry collection by Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah, published by Milkweed Editions. It was selected by Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlo, and Diane Seuss for the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.
