{"product_id":"their-borders-our-world-building-new-solidarities-with-palestine","title":"Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to think more concretely about the practice of solidarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Palestine Festival of Literature, or PalFest, was created in 2008 as “a cultural initiative committed to the creation of language and ideas for combating colonialism in the 21st century.” The annual festival brings authors from around the world to convene with readers, artists, writers, and activists in cities across Palestine for cross-pollination of radical art, ideas, and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese efforts resulted in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBeyond Frontiers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an anthology thoughtfully arranged and introduced by PalFest cocurator Mahdi Sabbagh. Contributors include writers and scholars such as Tareq Baconi and Dina Omar, architect Mabel O. Wilson, and filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton, among others, each bringing their diverse intellectual and geographic backgrounds to the forefront. Each piece grapples with the questions: How do we confront the need to take inevitable and often difficult political stances? How do we make sense of the destruction, uprooting, and pain that we witness? And given our seemingly impossible reality, how is mutuality constructed?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/3679\/1752\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-20_at_19.24.05.png?v=1781972676\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis anthology is thoughtfully arranged and introduced by PalFest cocurator Mahdi Sabbagh. Contributors include: Yasmin El-Rifae, Jehan Bseiso, Keller Easterling, Dina Omar, Tareq Baconi, Samia Henni, Omer Shah, Kareem Rabie, Ellen Van Neerven, Omar Robert Hamilton, and Mabel O. Wilson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Edward Said once remarked Palestinians had been denied the permission to narrate their own histories and experiences. Much has changed since then. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTheir Borders, Our World\u003c\/span\u003e brings together writers from PalFest, the international cultural solidarity initiative that defies the bans, borders, and bigotry aimed at snuffing out the vibrant Palestinian literary tradition. In the shadow of a Western-backed annihilationist campaign against Gaza and Palestinians, this volume does more than grant the permission to narrate: It is, without permission or apology, a call to liberate.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Nick Estes (Lakota), author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From exploring settler colonialism’s banality to the violence of architecture, this timely highly-recommended book explores through ten innovative essays new insights into ways of understanding and building solidarities with Palestine.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Raja Shehadeh, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMahdi Sabbagh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a writer, architect, and urbanist from Jerusalem. He is a co-curator of PalFest, the Palestine Festival of Literature. His work has been published in the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJournal of Public Culture\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJerusalem Quarterly\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArchitecture of the Territory\u003c\/span\u003e (Kaph Books, 2022), \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOpen Gaza\u003c\/span\u003e (AUC Press, 2021), \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Funambulist\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArab Urbanism\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePLATFORM\u003c\/span\u003e. He is a 2023 Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. Mahdi is a PhD student at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Architecture from Yale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahdi Sabbagh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45120857637064,"sku":null,"price":140.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/3679\/1752\/files\/their_borders.jpg?v=1781972759","url":"https:\/\/educationalbookshop.com\/products\/their-borders-our-world-building-new-solidarities-with-palestine","provider":"EducationalBookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}