As we mark 10 years since the launch of the Palestine Book Awards, watch our conversation with Palestinian novelist and poet Susan Abulhawa discussing her novel ‘Against the Loveless World’, described by the New York Times as “a beautiful, urgent novel of the Palestinian struggle”. The novel won the Palestine Book Awards Creative Prize in […]
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Mondoweiss Podcast: Against the Loveless World with Susan Abulhawa + Palestine Writes Literature Festival
Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa is the author of the international bestselling novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury, 2010) – www.morningsinjenin.com – and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine – www.playgroundsforpalestine.org. More by this author Views: 0
Abulhawa on her Palestinian epic: ‘My exile has defined my life and I don’t need to account for the sensitivities of the people who did that to me’
This is a celebration– and it’s in our podcast this week. A few months back, Susan Abulhawa published “Against the Loveless World”, an epic novel about the travels of a Palestinian refugee who ends up in an Israeli prison. The book deserves wide attention because it is a Palestinian’s story told completely outside the American […]
Susan Abulhawa Embodies the Spirit of Palestinian Resistance in Her New Book: Against the Loveless World
By Miko Peled Source Writer and political activist Susan Abulhawa weaves a daring tale of a Palestinian woman’s defiant experience in solitary confinement at an Israeli prison. Book Review — “I don’t care to be accommodating,” Nahr, the lead character in Susan Abulhawa’s new novel, “Against the Loveless World,” tells us. Perhaps she says this to […]
Susan Abulhawa is right about ‘Apeirogon’
In support of a straight shooter. I hadn’t intended to read Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon: A Novel,” (Random House, 2020) at this time. Till I read Raja Shehadeh’s article in Mondoweiss. My admiration and trust in the judgement of the human rights lawyer and prize-winning Palestinian writer compelled me to read the book. But first I […]