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Back to homepageAshraf Fayadh. FREE AT LAST!
ALQST for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia reported last Tuesday, 23 August 2022, that the Saudi authorities have finally released Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned now for more than eight years for the religious crime of “apostasy”
Read MoreDareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime
An update on the ongoing struggle of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour by Marcia Lynx Qualey of Arabit.org
Read MoreChristmas Gift: 6 Poems by Asmaa Azaizeh
Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh was born in 1985 in the village of Daburieh, in the Lower Galilee, Palestine. Her poems have since been translated into English, German, Spanish, Farsi, Swedish, Italian, Dutch and Hebrew
Read MoreFree At Last! Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Finally Released by Israelis
Thursday, 20 September, 2018 Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, was released from prison by the Israeli authorities after completing her last five-month prison sentence.
Read MorePalestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Sentenced to 5 Months; Create Art To Help Fight Her Conviction
Post Views: 34 Dareen Tatour has already spent more than two years and eight months between prison and house arrest for “incitement to violence” and “support of a terrorist organization” for her poem, “Resist, My People, Resist Them,” and Facebook statuses.
Read MoreMake Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
An open letter from poet-activist Mona Kareem and ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey
Read MoreOn Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘Dying for Free’
On the anniversary of the birth of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008), a new translation by Naser Albreeky
Read MoreNew Theatre: ‘The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh’
If you’re in London, you have an opportunity to drop in on a reading of Hassan Abdulrazzak‘s new short play, The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh
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