The Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English translation is now open for entries. The theme for 2024 is Resurgence. Translators invited to submit (unpublished) translations into English of a (published) Urdu poem. Please share widely and translators, submit: alijawadzaidi.com/2024-details

Children's daily lives in #GazaStrip have been completely shattered since the war began, and are full of horror and fear. Through sports and psychosocial activities, UNRWA teams bring some respite to children in #Gaza and help them back to learning, offering a sense of normalcy

G۸Z۸ Opened All Our Eyes to the Hypocrisy

James Baldwin, 45 years ago — eight years before Hamas was founded

Orwell nail it

"Extraordinary dishonest" On this week's #Unshocked, Naomi Klein & I break down the lies & gaslighting around the ceasefire negotiations, the real obstacles to a hostage deal, & the pretense that the U.S. is a powerless bystander to it all. Full show: zeteo.com/p/ceasefire-tr…

Confused about the endless ceasefire negotiations that never seem to go anywhere? That's by design: The endless talk is the smokescreen that covers the the land grabs. The ethnic cleaning. The genocide. With Mehdi Hasan, we get Unshocked about Israel and Washington's "talk and

Months of deteriorating conditions caused by ongoing war and siege have fuelled the spread of disease across the #GazaStrip UNRWA and partners are ready to roll out a #polio vaccination campaign for over 640,000 children, but humanitarian pauses will be critical.

*Putting on my best smile to coerce you to buy this book* Let me know if it worked.

Yup.

Wasafiri is pleased to share the first exclusive excerpt from our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms.   Our lead feature, ‘Against the Death of Dream’ by AnnieZaidi, is a deep dive into dreams and/as futures.    wasafiri.org/content/exclus…

Evocative, strikingly stylistic, esthetically profound... that is truly Sunandini Banerjee

Hello, World. No need to hurry up. We are no longer waiting for you. We are down, down under the rubble.

Thrilled and so proud!!! Congratulations Ankita ... keep on rocking

ICYMI: You can now book tickets for the first workshop from our 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence, Sawad Hussain, Sawad Hussain: ‘Writing Your Translation Memoir' Tuesday, 8 October, 7-9pm Tickets (including subsidised spaces & concessions): wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

We all count are blessings don’t we? Here. Is. Ours. ⁦Sunandini Banerjee⁩ telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/peo…