Fady Joudah
@FadyJoudah
Palestinian writer, poet, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize
Joined July 2023
- My withdrawal statement from the Edinburgh Literary Festival.
- In other words, this is the first Palestinian return within Palestine, in such numbers and insistence. It marks our memory into the future. From the river to the sea.
- Your arm fell off, pick it up and hit your enemy with it, there is no way out. And I fell next to you so pick me up and slam your foe with me, for you are now free, free, and free Darwish 1983
- As if letting Palestinians speak means anything at this point. As a Palestinian I do not need permission to speak. I need you to listen. The Wax in your ears has petrified your souls.
- I too had an interview slated to appear @GuernicaMag and pulled it out. The essay they published is humiliating to Palestinians in any time let alone during a genocide. An essay as if a dispatch from a colonial century ago. Oh how good you are to the natives.
- One of my childhood neighbors in Riyadh lost his aunt, her kids (his cousins), and their kids; eight people killed in Al Shifa massacre in which Israel says no civilians were killed. The lies. The complicity. The cowrdice. The psychosis. Incredible. His mother and mine ...
- Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."
