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Ramsey Hanhan

My New Book: Palestine Bleeds For You, and more

Published 9 months ago • 3 min read

Dear Reader,

“In a world of automata, being human is revolutionary.”

It is a formidable feeling to finally see the first layout of my long-awaited second book. Reading it brought back the years of blood and tears with which it was written. “The book I never wanted to write.”

“We all must understand Gaza to survive in this new world. We cannot go back to the same blinded worldview. None of us is safe in a world where the same elements that have fomented and assisted the genocide continue to run amok. In an authentic Palestinian voice, this book sketches the workings of the global machinery of oppression, revealing the centrality of Palestine’s liberation to decolonization, social justice, and environmental justice struggles around the world. This book dares to ask the tough questions humanity needs to tackle, in order to preserve its humanity.”

Palestine Bleeds For You will be released soon. I am grateful to authors Greta Berlin, Tony Hanania, and Rebecca Ruth Gould for providing endorsements. If you’re interested in reviewing it, please drop me a note.

Sunday March 1, be on the lookout for a new short story, to be published on Scene48.org. ‘Learning Hebrew’ is my shortest short story to date, with just under 800 words. I am proud it will be published in Haifa.

Below, you’ll find two essays, ‘Epstein Academy’ and the photographic ‘Providence, O! Providence,’ as well as a poem on social media censorship, ‘I Do Not Want To See This.’ After gathering evidence that LinkedIn and Medium have been shadowbanning my posts such that few see them, I am now trying other social media sites. Find me on Upscrolled: @RamseyHanhan

Plans for March include the launch of my new Substack, featuring new content unrelated to my earlier books. To be the first to hear, follow me now on Substack: @ramseyhanhan

Tomorrow Thursday, if you’re in Edinburgh, I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Edinburgh (remotely) on “Mental Decolonisation and Reclaiming the Palestinian Voice”, at a workshop on ‘Frontiers of Repression, Resistance and Solidarity in a Time of Genocide.’

Finally, if you’re wondering what I think of the “Board of Peace”: Trump’s perversion of the word ‘Peace’ is remarkable for what it’s missing, and that’s any mention of Palestinian self-determination, rights, or sovereignty over our own land. The experts I follow concur that it’s a plot to corporatize the reconstruction of Gaza, rob it of its resource wealth, and confine the Palestinian population into a small prison camp that’s highly surveilled, using them for exploited labor at luxury resorts. The “technocratic committee” has no authority to do anything but follow orders.

Applying the words of poet Lisa Suhair Majaj, who is kind enough to let me borrow them for an epigraph for Palestine Bleeds …

“No is steadfast. It knows what it’s like
to have nothing in its hands but dignity.”

With love,
Ramsey Hanhan

EVENTS

“Mental Decolonisation and Reclaiming the Palestinian Voice”

Registration Link and More Info:

Many thanks to Dr. Raad Khair Allah and the other organizers for putting together such an outstanding program.

POETRY

‘I Do Not Want to See This’

Online censorship and the silencing of Palestine

ESSAYS

Epstein Academy

Universities should serve the public, not wealthy and powerful elites

Providence, O! Providence

How long will we allow gun violence to desecrate the places we love?

Ramsey Hanhan is the author of two books: Fugitive Dreams (2022) and Palestine Bleeds For You (202), short stories, essays, and poetry. His works appear in The Harvard Advocate, Fikra magazine, Scene48, and other publications. He also speaks about Palestine and literature. Formerly a physics professor, Ramsey holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and lives near Baltimore, Maryland.

Fugitive Dreams. “Tell me more about the Israelis,” whispers five-year-old Ksenya to her dad on a visit to her grandparents in Palestine. Sameer immediately feels a weight descend upon his shoulders. How to tell her the truth without “its bloodied shadow staining the course of her life?” Join Sameer on a personal journey through the last five decades of the Palestinian experience.

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Ramsey Hanhan (رمزي حنحن) is a father, scientist, and globally-read author of two books: Palestine Bleeds For You (2026) and the autobiographical Fugitive Dreams (2022). His short stories, essays, and poetry appear in The Harvard Advocate, Fikra magazine, Scene48, Mondoweiss and other publications. A former physics professor, Ramsey lives near Baltimore, and speaks on Palestine and literature.

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