Dear Reader,

Thank you for sticking with me during this difficult year. I appreciate all your interactions and notes of support. Reflecting on a poem I wrote last year from Palestine on October 7, it occurred to me that everyone killed in Gaza during the past year – estimates range from 43,000 to 200,000 or more – were alive at the moment I wrote that poem. This sad truth points to a starker fact: that the loss of life since Oct. 7 was entirely preventable.

By the evening of October 7, the Israelis killed that day so tragically were gone. Killing more people wasn’t going to bring them back. Revenge is no policy, and yet all we have seen from American and Israeli leaders over this past year was murder and more murder, spreading destruction to Lebanon. As I argue in a radio interview with WYPR-Baltimore, the surest way to bring peace is for everyone within the borders of historic Palestine to enjoy their human rights in full. (Scroll down for the poem, Airplanes).

Tomorrow (9AM US Eastern, 2 PM GMT), be sure to catch my multi-media lecture to the Ecologies of Labour Network in the UK on the colonization of Palestine, highlighting my personal experiences and observations. Many thanks to Dr. Anastasia Christou for her gracious invitation.

Below, I share a host of recent activities, including links to interviews with Prism and the Baltimore Banner. I am grateful to all those in my local communities who invited me to talk or read poetry at their events, including Howard County for a Free Palestine, and the Holy Land Committee at St. Johns Norwood (thanks to Kirk Campbell). I also thank Lailla Balmahdi for inviting me to present at the Global Peace Summit (held in Islamabad, Pakistan), and Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas for founding this forum.

Finally, my Iqraa team and I are still running. Though I finished my race, the race for Palestine is far from over. I am still collecting donations for UPA’s Mahmoud Darwish Scholarship, and I continue to run, registering my longest run to date at 16 miles, in preparation for running a marathon next year.

With love,
Ramsey Hanhan

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TALK TOMORROW

Ecological Labour as an Instrument of Colonization: My Personal Experience in Occupied Palestine Friday Oct. 25, 2024 14:00 UK 9:00 Eastern US Using a combination of readings and photographs, Hanhan illustrates how Palestine’s environment has been severely harmed by a system that rations it for the benefit the newcomers to the land.

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INTERVIEWS

WYPR Baltimore Listen to my interview on Midday with Tom Hall about Palestine and my book Fugitive Dreams. Many thanks to Tom Hall, Teria Rogers, and Sam Bermas-Dawes for hosting voices not often heard. ​ Listen

The Baltimore Banner The Baltimore Banner quoted a line from my poem “Airplanes” in its coverage of our Oct. 6 rally in Howard County, Maryland. Read Article

Prism ‘Recognizing Palestine now, at a time when we are being wiped out of existence, is a meaningless gesture’ In a wide-ranging conversation with Lola Rosario for Prism, Palestinian American author Ramsey Hanhan discusses his experiences as a young person in Ramallah, Zionism, and what the world gets wrong about Palestine. Read Interview

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Please Donate to UPA’s Mahmoud Darwish Scholarship Fund

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POETRY

OPINIONS

‘Anger is a Gift’ Yes! I’m an angry Middle Eastern male. Now deal with it! ‘Make no mistake. The unhinged are not people like myself, but the ones who are silent.’ Read my latest article

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Ramsey Hanhan is is a Palestinian American author. His short stories and poetry appear in various publications. He also speaks publicly about Palestine and literature. He was formerly a physics professor noted for computer models that describe and predict complexity in nature. Hanhan holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Michigan and currently resides in Maryland. ​​​​​

Fugitive Dreams is a literary exploration of the Palestinian experience through five decades of personal stories. Born in Palestine ‘on the “wrong” side of the border,’ Sameer finds his way to America to rebuild his life. ​https://fugitivedreams.us​

Available to talk about Palestine and books.

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