‘Where should we go after the last frontiers, where should the birds fly after the last sky?’
Mahmoud Darwish
‘Palestine is a land planted by eyes refusing to be closed’
Etel Adnan
In solidarity with Palestine and as part of the campaign Publishers for Palestine, we are making available, for free on our website, articles on Palestinian artists, by Palestinian authors and on the decolonisation of Palestine more broadly which we published over the years.
This is a growing repository of resources, including articles from Afterall’s catalogue, as well as resources that other publishers and cultural organisations have made available. In the coming weeks, we will continue uploading past articles as well as newly commissioned pieces.
From Afterall catalogue:
- Applied Art? Feryal Matar and Art Education at Sharjah Women’s Association – Melissa Gronlund. Read
- Sensory Worlds: Rosalind Nashashibi’s Proxemic Lens – Nav Haq. Read
- Rosalind Nashashibi: Cold Open Day – Mike Sperlinger. Read
- Syria and/as the Planetary in Jumana Manna’s Wild Relatives – Edwin Nasr. Read
- Thinking and Engaging with the Decolonial: A Conversation Between Walter D. Mignolo and Wanda Nanibush. Read
- Silence into sound, erasure into being. A review of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s Postscript: after everything is extracted – Anahita Delcorde. Read
- Rasha Salti in conversation with Omar Kholeif to discuss ‘The International Art Exhibition for Palestine’, which took place in Beirut in 1978. Watch
- Walls, No Bridges: The Relation Between Revealing and Disguising in Ahlam Shibli’s Photographic Practice – Christian Höller. Read
- And My Shrine Is My Mother’s Salon: On Ahlam Shibli’s ‘Death’ – Yazid Anani. Read
- Insurgency and Circumspection: The Legacies of Pan-Arabism – Andrew Stefan Weiner. Read
- The Future Archaeology of Israel’s Colonisation – Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti & Eyal Weizman. Read
A reading list:
- Permission to Narrate by Edward Said (1984). Read
- Edward Said on After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, 1986 at ICA, London. Listen
- Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of the Genocide by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi. Read
- After poet Refaat Alareer was killed by Israel on 7 December his last poem ‘If I must die’ has been translated into many languages. Translate
- The Void Project: A collection of restored Palestinian films. Watch
- Tokyo Reels: Restoring Solidarity. Learn more
- Radio Alhara’s Learning Palestine. Listen
- John Berger reading Ghassan Kanafani’s Letter from Gaza. Listen
More resources: