November Media Map: Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis & Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Learn more about the struggle for Palestinian liberation & its connection to themes explored in Freedom is a Constant Struggle & Rifqa through this collection of music, books, art, film, podcasts, journals, and other resources. Keep this curated list on hand + share with your network to access free PDFs & educational references.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis & Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Music
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Books
Take a look at the “Resources” section below,
where you can find FREE access to some of the texts listed here.
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel by Andrew Ross
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad & brian bean, eds.
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick
Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation by Mateo Hoke & Cate Malek, eds.
Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh
White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World by Anna Lekas Miller
Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami ♥
Exit West by Mohsid Hamid
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
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Art
Access to Data Backed Graphics | Visualizing Palestine
Visualizing Palestine (VP) was established in 2012, and is dedicated to using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. VP envisions a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression.
TV and Film
Ten films to watch about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
Palestinian Voices: Access to Free Online & In-Person Screenings | Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI)
Podcasts and Video
Angela Davis: A Life of Activism | CIIS Public Programs
Palestine: "Women and Children" and Politics of Appeal with Mohammed El-Kurd | Haymarket Books
Downstream: How the Media Lies About Palestine w/ Mohammed El-Kurd | Novara Media
PODCAST: Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine | Pluto Press
Noname Book Club Recording: 6/5 Rifqa Virtual Meetup w/ Mohammed El-Kurd
Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | Lex Fridman Podcast #391
Self-Care as Political Warfare | Audre Lorde NOW Series
Accounts to Follow
Our BOTM Author: @mohammedelkurd
@palestineacademy
@palestinianyouthmovement
@jewishvoiceforpeace
@mecaforpeace
@colorcollectivepress
@arabfilmmedia
@sally_Samir_
@hassan.manasrah.illustrations
@queersinpalestine
@palestinestudies
Resources
FREE ACCESS - Free Palestine: A Verso Reading List
FREE ACCESS - Free Books, Essays, Journals on Palestine
FREE ACCESS - Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!
Act Now Against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People | BDS Movement
List of Topics: The Duty to End the Occupation | The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Freedom Is the Future Vision & Policy Demands - Justice for All
Articles
“I Write an Attempt”: On Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” | Los Angeles Review of Books
OPEN LETTER: Ending #GazaGenocide is a Feminist Issue: Call from Palestinian Women | BDS Movement
Dispatches From the West Bank | Jewish Currents
What Can South Africa Teach Palestinians | Palestinian Youth Movement
The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale, an excerpt of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
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