The Palestinian Attorney General‚Äôs move to prosecute writer Abbad Yahya, banning his novel and accusing him of threatening morality and public decency in his novel Crime

Yesterday, English PEN issued a statement in solidarity with Palestinian writer Abbad Yahya, currently unable to leave Qatar for home: The statement addressed the Palestinian Attorney General’s banning

By Joanna Kakissis Abbad Yahya is used to controversy. For the last five years, the young Palestinian novelist has been writing books that have been

Abbad Yahya’s recently published novel contained indecent terms that threatened morality and public decency, according to Attorney General Ahmed Barak. Palestinian authorities have banned a

We are a people of dirty secrets hiding beneath a veil of fake morality. That’s the first thought that came to mind when I read

“Crime in Ramallah” is a text that marks a decisive unicum in narrating some thorny issues of the Arab world, effectively bringing something revolutionary to

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Ban and backlash create a bestseller: The bestselling Palestinian author talks to Jemimah Steinfeld about why a joke on Yasser Arafat put his life at

I CAN’T REMEMBER THE first time I heard the slogan “No Voice is Louder than the Voice of the Intifada”. I was born at the peak

This research is a contribution to the critique of the Arab preoccupation with the knowledge/ideology dualism, based on the recognition that this dualism is critical

This paper traces the problematic relationship between statistics and social research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since 1967. It aims to reveal the colonial

Why are so many oral narratives of the Nakba almost identical? Are there voices that are marginalized and experiences that are suppressed? How can we

By Abbad Yahya Translated from Arabic by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp In this excerpt from A Crime in Ramallah, Abbad Yahya’s narrator Noor remembers his adolescence in Palestine, marked by the second intifada.  July

The Words without Borders July 2017 issue “Divided Countries” includes an excerpt I’ve translated of A Crime in Ramallah by Palestinian author Abbad Yahya. In