Welcome to the Workshops for Gaza bookstore, a partnership with Open Books: A Poem Emporium. All proceeds from books bought here go to THE SAMEER PROJECT’S TENTS, CASH AID AND medical campaign.

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Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animals’ display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too.

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Shima is a mosaic of the emotional, psychic, and generational toll that exile from a pillaged culture impresses on a poet and his community.

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Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an "age of riots" as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history.

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In Reencounters, Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations-hypervisible and deeply sensed-become everyday formations delinked from militarization.

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The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales presents a selection of Eroshenko’s stories, translated from Japanese and Esperanto, to English readers for the first time.

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A meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival--in which Harootunian attempts to come to terms with a history that is just beyond his reach-- The Unspoken as Heritage demonstrates how the genocidal past never leaves the present, even in its silence.

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In Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation-state formation.

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

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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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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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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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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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