Jailed Palestinian leader Barghouti’s writings to be collected in new book
Writings and correspondence from jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti will be collected in a new book due out later this year, with his family expressing hope that it would give a new audience insight into his mindset.
“Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine” will be published in November and feature “private letters to his family, letters to public figures, press interviews, public statements, important historical documents” and personal photos, according to publisher Penguin Random House’s Vintage division.
It will also include excerpts from his previous book, 2011’s “1000 Days in Solitary Confinement”, which was previously only available in Arabic, Vintage said.
Barghouti has been jailed by Israel since 2002. A senior leader in President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group, Barghouti was a prominent figure in the first and second Intifadas, and was convicted by an Israeli court on five counts of murder in 2004, two years after he was jailed. He has denied the charges.
His imprisonment by Israel has been among the most high-profile, and his release has long been a key aim of several of the groups opposing Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Indian writer Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlin Film Festival over Gaza row
Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she was cancelling her planned participation in the Berlin Film Festival over comments from jury president Wim Wenders that the festival had to “stay out of politics”.
The Booker Prize-winning author said in a statement sent to AFP that she was “shocked and disgusted” by the celebrated German director’s response to a question on Gaza at a press conference on Thursday, adding: “With deep regret, I must say that I will not be attending the Berlinale.”
Tons of movies are full of propaganda, what do you mean "stay out of politics".
Palestine Action HUMILIATE Government In High Court
Dropping bombs on women and children is "self defence", opposing genocide is "terrorism"
Well at least not all the judges have been bought / replaced (yet)
