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It’s my honour to announce DAYBREAK IN GAZA, out in October @SaqiBooks: Gazan voices telling Gazan stories of life, love, loss & survival—people, places, testimonies, history, memoir, poetry & art, showcasing a heritage that can never be destroyed.
Order:
linktr.ee/matthewteller
Raja Shehadeh talking to the BBC World Service about the preservation of his archive from destruction at the hands of Israeli forces in the West Bank
(audio begins 35:13)
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1730b…
image © Mariana Cook
Matthew Teller retweeted
The Alwaleed Centre is privileged to be part of the team including @Edu_Bookshop, @CRC_EdUni, DAME at @UniofExeter & @matthewteller who have collaborated to archive the diaries of Palestinian writer, lawyer & activist, Raja Shehadeh: youtu.be/urfbTCoQaCI?si=ODa7…
Matthew Teller retweeted
I am crowdfunding to support Palestinian volunteers working on this historic archive. Until UK unis recruit archivists—which may not happen—volunteers in Palestine & the UK are working independently to keep the archive functional. Please donate if you can:
gofundme.com/the-raja-shehad…
Matthew Teller retweeted
University of Edinburgh celebrates the safe arrival of Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine #BookTwitter #booklovers buff.ly/HHs9o1o
I am crowdfunding to support Palestinian volunteers working on this historic archive. Until UK unis recruit archivists—which may not happen—volunteers in Palestine & the UK are working independently to keep the archive functional. Please donate if you can:
gofundme.com/the-raja-shehad…
The Raja Shehadeh Archive, a vital record of Palestinian history and culture, has been preserved against destruction, but now the real work begins. Please consider donating or sharing to help make this collection accessible to scholars and the public gofund.me/c4a49ee09
I'm immensely proud to have played a part in this
>>'An act of resistance': Raja Shehadeh's diaries find a new home in Scotland aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31…
On 3 Sept join the public event online with Raja to mark this achievement: llc.ed.ac.uk/raja-shehadeh
For the last 2 years, I've been directing a secret project, helping Raja Shehadeh safeguard his diaries - literally millions of words, going back six decades. It's quite a story. Join us as we tell it:
> Thu 3 Sep
> 3pm UK time
> Free to register:
llc.ed.ac.uk/raja-shehadeh
Palestine scholars
Archivists
Contemporary social historians
Publishers
Literary folk
Arts media
and others
Save the date
Thurs 3 September
6am PDT / 9am EDT / 2pm London / 4pm Jerusalem / 11pm Sydney
Announcement coming soon
Take 10 minutes to listen to what this British professor of transplant surgery says about conditions today:
youtube.com/watch?v=egemCaZ1…
They did this in Gaza too. The heinous inhumanity of moral corruption
>>In south Lebanon, Israeli drones use the sound of crying children to lure civilians
middleeasteye.net/news/south…
There’s lots of bigger news out there, but this feeling of finishing up one book while signing a contract for the next book is unfamiliar to me so I thought I’d use this sharing platform to share it. Now booking for 2028 🎉
Matthew Teller retweeted
I just saw a Palestinian man holding the body of his 6-year-old daughter in Gaza, killed today by an Israeli strike on refugees in tents.
Without Palestinians on the ground and social media I wouldn’t have seen it, because mainstream Western media pretends it’s not happening.
Matthew Teller retweeted
The brilliant @rachshabi making sense of the duality of rising antisemitism & it’s weaponisation:
“It is entirely possible – in fact vital– to hold compassion for a fearful Jewish minority facing violent antisemitism, while rejecting the way such fears can be manipulated for political ends.”
Latest post - The elephant in the room: antisemitism in the shadow of Israel's wars
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/t…
Leipzig University students vote to boycott
middleeasteye.net/news/germa…
New book: FINDING ALADDIN celebrates a Syrian storyteller who was almost lost to history. Hanna Diab created Aladdin, only to be betrayed by those he trusted—and then erased from his own story. I'm overturning 300 years of injustice. Order now: linktr.ee/matthewteller
People matter more than books or stones - but books (and stones) matter too middleeasteye.net/news/under…
Matthew Teller retweeted
I'm an Israeli Jewish citizen and I think Israel is an apartheid state.
Lots of other Israelis agree.
