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Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center and Al Ma'mal invite you to attend Ramallah launch of A Blade of Grass on Saturday 28.7.2018 at 7:00 pm at Sakakini garden.

The Palestinian launch [Part Two] of the new bilingual anthology A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books, 2017, UK). Featuring readings from Farid Bitar Jerusalem/NYC), Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marwan Makhoul, and a Q&A with the poets and editor Naomi Foyle (UK).

Come to the garden!

An event in Arabic and English. Free.
Book table courtesy The Educational Bookshop. A percentage of the profits will be donated to the legal funds of contributors Ashraf Fayadh and Dareen Tatour, both currently imprisoned, respectively in Saudi Arabia and Israel, on charges related to their poetry.

"Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human frailty, like a blade of grass growing on a wall as armies march by.' Mahmoud Darwish