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Press release from Columbia University Apartheid Divest states “at least 100” students were detained by NYPD today. It includes a portion of an email from Columbia Pres. Shafik stating she authorized the NYPD to clear the lawn, which previously was deemed a “free speech zone.”

It's shameful that Columbia is suspending and having students arrested for peacefully protesting genocide.

4/24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. As I reflect on my family’s experience, I’m clear that protest is remembrance, action is remembrance, solidarity is remembrance. Never again means for anyone. Again is now. Free Palestine.

I’ve taught a writing seminar on home & exile at Columbia. Our work is not theoretical. It's about our communities & lives. Amidst the violent suppression of protest on campus I'm grateful to read my former student Elena Dudum's essay of disciplined hope. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

"The youth are no longer asking. They are demanding. They are putting their own bodies on the line; they are walking into the water." A gorgeous & forceful exploration of Exodus & the campus protests from Hannah Gold my former student & forever teacher thebaffler.com/latest/parting…

What an indescribable feeling it is to see Columbia Daily Spectator on the latest cover of New York Magazine. Our very own student journalists reported, wrote, photographed, and illustrated a three-story package that gives an intimate portrait into Columbia University: a campus in crisis.

The Israeli assault on Rafah is catastrophic. Children crushed to death. Humanitarian aid cut off. People starving. No refuge. This is a massacre. Stop arming Israel. #ceasefireNowPermanently

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To speak of legality regarding the slaughter of children is obscene.

"The effect of training people’s attention on matters of discourse and representation is to avoid addressing...material facts. The material facts in this case are: money, land, weapons, and over 37,000 dead Palestinians." nybooks.com/online/2024/06…

Grant season is here and we've put together the ultimate guide to help answer any questions you might have about the three grants IALA is offering this year! First up is our 2024 Creative Writing Grant, which will be judged by Susan Barba, @AMrjoian, & Nadia Owusu. Thread🍏:

Heartrending testimony from a doctor who witnessed the violence done to children in Gaza—shrapnel, loss of limb and life, sniper bullets in the chests. How can life go on for us when this is happening in Palestine?

Whiting winner Nadia Owusu is a judge for this year's International Armenian Literary Alliance 2024 Creative Writing Grant! One Armenian writer will receive $2,500 for work-in-progress. The application opens Sep. 1. Find out more about this grant and others here: buff.ly/3SonTT4

I'm honored. Thank you, Abi Daré and You're Booked! I've been eagerly anticipating "And So I Roar"!

Psst: The application for the 2025 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 9/20 at bit.ly/periplusfaq. There's no fee to apply. Please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!

I'm excited to be teaching Tin House again! It's always a nourishing, inspiring, magical time. Apply!

This is a must-listen podcast episode. I'll be spending the weekend with Isabella Hammad's new book.

Poet & dr Fady Joudah comments on 1 year of carnage & collective punishment: “I really ask myself: what do I believe? That human lives are equal or not? Nothing, no political explanation, no historical explanation justifies for me as a physician or human being such brutality.”

I don’t understand the word “urges.” Why isn’t it “orders”? Isn’t this country the reason why this continues to happen? My people’s lives, after all the losses I have endured, hinges on this language. If you cannot control someone’s behavior, in this case a bloodthirsty state,

Seeing Aftershocks translated into Armenian is such a gift. I was also honored, with @barbasusan and Aram Mrjoian, to select a winner for International Armenian Literary Alliance's creative writing grant. Congrats to Lori Yeghiayan Friedman! Her excerpt of her memoir "How to Survive a Genocide" was a standout.