14 NOV 2023 · An extract from the second part of Adania Shibli's novel "Minor Detail", a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory that cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment. Adania Shibli, who divides her time between Berlin and Jerusalem, was due on 20 October to be awarded the 2023 LiBeraturpreis, an annual prize given to women writers from Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Arab world. On Friday, however, the LitProm association that hands out the prize announced it would postpone the award ceremony “due to the war started by Hamas, under which millions of people in Israel and Palestine are suffering”. In its original announcement, LitProm said it had taken the step to postpone the award as a “joint decision” with the author. But Shibli’s literary agency responded that the decision was not made with her consent, and that if the ceremony had been held she would have taken the opportunity to reflect on the role of literature in these painful times. An open letter, signed by more than 350 authors admonished the organisers of the Frankfurt book fair, the world’s largest trade fair of its kind, saying it has “a responsibility to be creating spaces for Palestinian writers to share their thoughts, feelings, reflections on literature through these terrible, cruel times, not shutting them down”. Translation from Arabic: Elisabeth Jaquette Voices: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni

4 NOV 2023 · For English translation please go to https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speech-of-the-red-indian/ All our solidarity to the Palestinian struggle! Thanks to RADIO ALHARA for the amazing program UNTIL LIBERATION. https://soundcloud.com/radiokara

29 OCT 2023 · In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature, English writer, art critic and long-time supporter of Palestine John Berger gave a moving reading of Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in 1972. A warm thank you to Radio Al Hara https://www.radioalhara.net/

22 NOV 2022 · In homage to one of the most uncompromising figures in the history of cinema, Jean-Marie Straub, this remix presents an assemblage of film fragments by Huillet/Straub including "Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene", "En Rachachant", "La Guerre d'Algérie", "Kommunisten" and "Noir peché". Merci Jean-Marie and Danièle, you and your films will live with us forever!

9 NOV 2022 · A reading of the first part of Etel Adnan's poem SEA, from the book "Sea and Fog". Voice: Graeme Thomson Recording and mix: Silvia Maglioni

12 SEP 2022 · "If My Words" by Canadian-Palestinian poet and performer Rafeef Ziadah, from the album "We Teach Life".

11 AUG 2022 · Ho sognato Pauline Oliveros. Era dicembre, vicino al mio compleanno. Era lì, con me. Allo stesso tempo da qualche parte. Come terra nella terra. Dentro. Le palme delle mani. Ascolta. Il silenzio un respiro che diventa. Ovunque. La ringrazio. Ti ringrazio Pauline.

11 AUG 2022 · Adrian Mitchell from Out Loud, 1968 (translation to Russian by Kirill Medvedev)

11 AUG 2022 · Questo testo è il tentativo di trascrivere e fissare attraverso le parole un sogno misterioso che feci durante il periodo di primo lockdown in Italia. Ho trascorso quattro mesi in una casa disabitata e le uniche relazioni che intrattenni erano con gli autori e le autrici dei libri che portai con me. Queste letture influenzarono profondamente il mio immaginario onirico: i sogni che feci in quel periodo avevano il sapore di una rivoluzione immanente e la speranza per un cambiamento radicale che poteva pian piano farsi strada. Un immaginario post-apocalittico si aprì davanti ai miei occhi: dalla penombra di una stanza angusta vidi una metropoli di edifici grigi, abbandonati e divorati dalla vegetazione, rovine di una civiltà ormai scomparsa e forse mai rimpianta. Ma all’alba di un nuovo giorno, entità inedite si raccolgono per scacciare con le nude mani il male del mondo. This text is an attempt to render into words a mysterious dream that I had during the period of the first Italian lockdown. At that time, I spent four months in an uninhabited flat and the only relationships I had were with the authors of the books I took with me. These readings profoundly influenced my dreams. For these months, my dreams had the taste of an immanent revolution and the hope for a radical transformation that could slowly make its way. In this dream, a post-apocalyptic imaginary opened before my eyes: from the dim light of a cramped room I saw a gray metropolis of abandoned buildings, overgrown by vegetation, ruins of civilization that has now disappeared and perhaps never not be mourned. But at the dawn of a new day, unprecedented entities gather to chase away the evil of the world with their bare hands.

11 AUG 2022 · An extract from "Experiments in Imagining Otherwise" by Lola Olufemi Voice: Chara Stergiou