Welcome to the Workshops for Gaza bookstore, a partnership with Open Books: A Poem Emporium. All proceeds go to Mohammed’s family in Gaza.

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Gaza Writes Back is a compelling anthology of short stories from fifteen young writers in Gaza, members of a generation that has suffered immensely under Israel's siege and blockade.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Inspired by the realm of The Legend of Zelda, giving voice to non-player characters and blurring the boundaries of game-world and real-world, Summer Farah's poems explore madness, girlhood, and the reverberations of empire.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

These poems are filled with rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land, and they are also suffused with the smell of tea, roses in bloom, and the view of the sea at sunset.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Translated into English for the first time after its publication in 1967, Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature makes an incisive analysis of the literary fiction written in support of the Zionist colonization of Palestine.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan’an during his nine years of hiding from the Israeli occupation between 1982 and 1991.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

In You Can Be the Last Leaf, Abu Al-Hayyat has created a richly textured portrait of Palestinian interiority—at once wry and romantic, worried and tenacious, and always singing itself.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

A story of family bonds amid political betrayal that explores the drastic steps that a young girl will take in order to find a sense of belonging.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Salt Houses follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for a sequence of prose poems.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Fady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with, “I am unfinished business,” articulating the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people.

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home.

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