Summer Farah

Oct 31, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Summer Farah

In July, U.S.-based independent publisher Interlink Publishing announced that it was under new ownership: founders Michel and Ruth Moushabeck have passed Interlink on to their daughters Hannah, Leyla, and Maha, and son-in-law, Harrison Williams. Founded in 1987 and run out of Northampton, Massachusetts, the press puts out more than 70 titles a year, home to such award-winners as novelist Sefi Atta and cookbook author Yohanis Gebreyesu.

Jul 11, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Summer Farah |Chiara Marchelli |Carol Sansour

I often engage with the speculative as a language for engaging with liberatory political frameworks—let our minds wander toward the what-if and undo the bounds of the colonial structures we have learned and existed under for so long. Zaina Alsous is a poet who exemplifies this potential—her poem “The Workers Love Palestine,” first published in Jewish Currents, is the first I turn to when the rotted present makes a future seem impossible. Its futuristic setting is bare.

Apr 23, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Summer Farah

The release of the English translation of the 2016 photo book Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, with a new foreword by activist and writer Mohammed El-Kurd, coincides with an era in which more images of Palestinians are circulating than perhaps ever before. Each day, a montage of genocidal horrors documented by Palestinians in Gaza is shared alongside moments of reprieve, like recovering a bicycle from rubble.

Mar 3, 2024 | bookshop.org | Summer Farah

I COULD DIE TODAY AND LIVE AGAIN is inspired by the realm of The Legend of Zelda. Giving voice to non-player characters and blurring the boundaries of game-world and real-world, Summer Farah's poems explore madness, girlhood, and the reverberations of empire. Fixating on the figures of the lonely child and the moon-something to be feared, something to be revered--this collection laments the loss of friends and of country, but always resolves to try again and again and again.

Feb 29, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Summer Farah

Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer from California. The author of the chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024), she organizes with the Radius of Arab American Writers and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.