Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $60)

Step 2: Register for “Forgotten Pages from the History of the Palestinian Resistance” here

Over the course of three sessions (June 14, 15, & 21), this workshop will explore some of the lesser known episodes of the history of the Palestinian Resistance.

The first session will explore the early struggles that the Ottoman Palestinians and Arabs waged against the Zionist project as early as the first Zionist settlement, recognizing how the years 1878-1920 shaped the contemporary Palestinian struggle.

The second session will explore the history of Fateh's "Student Brigades," its trajectory in the "Jarmaq Battalion" and later the Islamic Jihad Brigades.

And the final session will focus on the internationalist dimension of the Palestinian struggle. While emphasizing the imperialist nature of the Zionist movement (relying mainly on Kanfani's study of the 1936 uprising) the session will revisit the history of the "external operations" and the careers of internationalist individuals and groups that dedicated their lives to the Palestinian aspect of the anti-imperialist struggle.

Ahmed Diaa Dardir is the co-founder of the Institute for De-Colonising Theory (IDCtheory); he holds a PhD in Middle East Studies from Columbia University.

Majd Khalid Darwish is an instructor, researcher, and editor at IDCtheory; he holds an MA in International Law from SOAS.

Ameed Faleh is a researcher at IDCtheory, and a fellow with the Good Shepherd Collective; he is a graduating senior at al-Quds Bard.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Kashmir’s Freedom Struggle” here

This workshop will delve into Kashmir’s long-standing freedom struggle, rooted in resistance against occupation and oppression. We’ll trace the historical betrayals and ongoing injustices faced by Kashmiris, including the intensification of India's settler-colonial project in the region since 2019. The discussion will expose state violence, media silencing, and the broader implications of militarization in the region. Together, we’ll explore how global solidarity and sustained activism can support Kashmiris in their fight for dignity, rights, and self-determination.

Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the history of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern World. She is the author of Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford University Press, 2023), which examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $35).

Step 2: Register for “Reading Against Empire: A Reading Group” here.

How has our world been narrated to us by empire, and how can we speak back against those narratives? What anticolonial strategies for reading, writing, and being do these works cultivate in their attention to British, American, and Japanese imperial projects?

Join scholars Sam Ikehara and Nozomi Nakaganeku to read and discuss Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes (April 5), Dionne Brand's Salvage: Readings from the Wreck (June 7), Crystal Myun-hye Baik's Re-encounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique (Sept. 6), and Wendy Matsumura's Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire (Dec. 6).

Participants will meet online across four sessions to discuss these books with one another, though there is no requirement to join every session. They are also encouraged to purchase copies of the texts from the Workshops4Gaza bookstore, where all proceeds are donated to a different Gaza initiative each month.

Sam Ikehara was born and raised in Oʻahu. Her research and activism emerge from her family's histories and experiences across multiple wars and empires in the Pacific Ocean, particularly the U.S. military occupations of Hawaiʻi and Okinawa.

Nozomi Nakaganeku-Saito is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at Amherst College. Her research focuses on the impacts of US militarism and Japanese settler colonialism on Okinawa and the role of literature and storytelling in (re)shaping relations to land/air/sea by centering Indigenous perspectives.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Resistance Literature Now!” here.

The late activist-scholar Barbara Harlow’s foundational text, Resistance Literature, first published in 1987, was just republished this year due to popular demand. She opens the text as follows:

"The term ‘resistance' (muqawamah) was first applied in a description of Palestinian literature in 1966 by the Palestinian writer and critic Ghassan Kanafani in his study Literature of Resistance in Occupied Palestine: 1948-1966."

Harlow builds upon Kanafani’s theoretical work by collecting a wide range of anti-imperialist and anti-colonial poetry and prose produced in the 1960s through the early 80s alongside national liberation movements in the Global South.

In this 2-session workshop, we will first read the introductory chapter as well as the one on Resistance Poetry, then the related folio of poems, broadening and deepening our understanding of resistance literature.

We'll discuss the poems within their revolutionary contexts, and consider how we might apply Harlow’s framework to our contemporary moment. No experience with poetry or literary criticism required!

Jaime Shearn Coan is a writer, educator, and organizer living in NYC whose work centers on the role of literature and performance in social movements.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Writing to Remember: An Introduction to Flash Prose” here.

Flash prose, whether fictional or non-fictional, is characterized by its capacity to tell an unforgettable story in very few words. In this workshop, we will approach flash prose as a self-contained window onto socio-historical processes that emerge from our most specific lived experiences and in particular, memories. We will gather tools from poetry, political organizing, and how memory itself works to write a flash prose piece that sheds critical light on systemic forces through autobiographical examples.

Tala Khanmalek (all pronouns) is a queer writer, editor, and scholar of Iranian descent. They hold a PhD in ethnic studies from UC Berkeley, where they were a student activist in SJP.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “On the Memory of Water” here.

This workshop explores the profound connections between water, memory, and resistance from the perspectives of poets of color. Water serves not only as sustenance but as a repository of our collective memory and cultural survival, witnessing and recording histories of colonization, resistance, and renewal across generations.

We will analyze the craft of those the water remembers, including poets such as Ariana Benson, Banah el Ghadbanah, Camonghne Felix, and Nizar Qabbani. From the protection of Indigenous Filipino reservoirs to the militarized borders of the Mediterranean, this workshop invites you to listen to the stories that water has to tell.

Maya Salameh is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Offing, Poetry, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, AGNI, Mizna, and the LA Times, among others. She can be found at @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Against these Walls” here

The world’s deadliest land migration route--the Sonoran Desert--is a land of open graves. Shared between Palestine and the Sonoran Desert are patterns of social ordering and othering, circuits and flows of surveillance, the siphoning of pasts and the denial of futures by settler colonial thieves.

Against the constellation of violences of the US/Mexico border, it is necessary to untangle the coded language of slaughter, technologies and intricate web of stakeholders, as lifeblood of the border-military-industrial complex.

Ultimately, the security regimes operate in the interest of ceaseless shareholder profits; the Nakba is always ongoing. In this workshop, we will work to better understand this imperial insatiability, and, co-conspire forms of resistance to the war machine.

Danika Cooper is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where the core of her research centers on the geopolitics of scarcity, alternative water ontologies, and designs for resiliency in the global aridlands. She earned an MA in Design Studies and Master of Landscape Studies from Harvard University.

Taylor Miller is a researcher and writer based in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Arizona and is a university lecturer and a research fellow with the London-based Corruption Tracker/Shadow World Investigations, documenting the violence of the global arms trade.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “The Workers Love Palestine” here.

In this workshop we will read and discuss the poem “The Workers Love Palestine” by Zaina Alsous together with an excerpt from Blood in My Eye by George Jackson to consider language and labor as tools of struggle against imperial and colonial power.

We will grapple with what these texts clarify and complicate about the relationships between capitalism and imperialism, poetry and politics, revolutionary theory and revolutionary practice.

Following our discussion, we will engage in a short somatic activity and collective writing exercise, a collaborative “fumbling toward an otherwise” as an experiment in cultural production that engages many voices and our whole bodies.

The Daybreak Poets Collective are poets committed to anti-imperialism. The collective is named after June Jordan’s INTIFADA INCANTATION: POEM #8 FOR b.b.L., and the line—NOBODY TAKE AWAY DAYBREAK! The Daybreak facilitators for this workshop will be Jody Chan and Furqan Mohamed.

Step 1: Donate to Kojo here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “How to Write to Political Prisoners 101” here.

In this workshop, writer and former political prisoner Eric King will guide us through the 101's of how to write to political prisoners, and why supporting and communicating with prisoners is such an important and overlooked aspect of our liberation movements.

Maybe you've seen calls for supporting political prisoners or letter-writing sessions, but have felt unsure how to get started? This workshop is for you! No prior knowledge or experience needed!

All proceeds from Eric’s workshop will go to Kojo Sababu, a political prisoner who needs ongoing support for commissary and medical funds.

Eric King is an anarchist and anti-fascist writer and organizer who spent ten years in federal prison for acting in solidarity with the Ferguson uprising. He was released from the Federal Supermax prison in December 2023. He is the co-editor of Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners (AK Press, 2023) and his memoir, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon (AK Press, 2026) is forthcoming.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Theories and Practices of Child Liberation” here.

"This is a genocide of children," said the sociologist Heba Gowayed about Gaza in 2024. And just as children in the West have long resisted settler-colonial, patriarchal, familial, cissexist, racial, and adult-supremacist domination - sometimes via explicitly Youth Liberationist platforms, sometimes not - Palestinian children today are not exclusively victims of annihilation.

As Mira Mattar contends, they are agents of anti-Zionist resistance, too; "the authors, carriers, and distributors of collective memory." In this workshop, we will explore scholarship on Palestinian children's theorization of their oppression as Palestinians and as children, drawing connections between their struggles and the buried histories of child liberationism in the West.

Sophie Lewis is an ex-academic independent scholar living in Philadelphia, working on a book called The Liberation of Children. She is also the author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms.

She teaches short courses on critical theory online for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and her articles appear everywhere from the London Review of Books to Harper's magazine. You can find all essays and speaking future events listed at http://lasophielle.org and support Sophie's free-lance writing, if you wish, at http://patreon.com/reproutopia.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Guidance for New Growers” here.

In this workshop, the lead farmer of SisterLand Farms will teach participants how to create the foundations of a sustainable farm, garden, or homestead. Jenson (they/them) will break the process into eight steps that will inform vegetable and herb growers of most scales and answer questions like: "What can be grown on rented land?", "What tools do I need to start?", "What are the most common setbacks and pitfalls?"

By the end of the workshop, you will have a general idea of how to prepare growing spaces, how to crop plan, how to sow and transplant, how to mitigate organics waste, what you do (and do not) need to have on hand for success, the basics of harvesting and storage, and how to prepare your space for the following growing season. This workshop is ideal for new gardeners, those curious about starting market farms, community gardeners, and homesteaders.

Jenson (they/them) is a farmer and educator working on the Olympic Peninsula. With over a decade of organic farming experience, Jenson now manages SisterLand Farms, which has won three Farm of the Year awards since its founding in 2018. They specialize in small-scale farming, regenerative agricultural practices, and diverse crop planning. They passionately advocate for dignity in farming and manual labor, and believe that strong communities will always require strong food systems.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Palestine 1492: A Report Back - The Making of an Autonomous Book” here.

Join Linda Quiquivix, author of Palestine 1492: A Report Back, to learn about the making of the book from start to finish, including the writing process, working with an autonomous press, as well as the design and visual messaging. Palestine 1492 is a book of history, geography, theory, memoir, and art that provides a “report-back” on 500 years of global struggle through words, maps, and images. It is written for a world in which all worlds fit, sharing the lessons Linda has learned from the teachings of Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers and jaguars.   

Linda Quiquivix is a geographer and popular educator of Maya-Mam roots raised by Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars. She has a BS and MA from California State University Northridge, a Ph.D. in Geography from UNC Chapel Hill, and a Certificate in Middle East Studies from Duke University. She also held the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Global Humanities at Brown University. Learn more about her and her work at https://quiqui.org/

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Written in Blood and Ink” here.

In this interactive workshop, participants will close-read letters and poetry from political prisoners across the globe—from Palestine to Congo to the U.S.—to explore the profound moral and political clarity of their writing and scholarship.

We’ll discuss why our political prisoners deserve our love and solidarity, and why they are the north star of our struggle.

A letter has both a sender and a receiver: what is our political duty as the inheritors of these political missives and directives? We will end by leaving time at the end for participants to (voluntarily) write a letter to a political prisoner of their choice.

Sarah Hassouneh is a mother, doula, writer, educator, philosopher, and cultural worker who theorizes around birth, death, gentrification and colonialism, and synthesis-building. Descended from Palestinian and Egyptian lineages but raised in NE Portland, her work is rooted in transnational solidarity. She is the co-founder of Hurriyyah Collective, an anti-imperialist Muslim organization based in Portland.

Jamila Osman is a Somali writer, multimedia artist, and educator. She has taught creative writing from Portland to Palestine, from summer camps to juvenile detention facilities. She is the winner of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and is the author of the chapbook A Girl is a Sovereign State (Akashic 2020).

To register, venmo @baum-kirshenhan in advance or when you arrive with description “birds.” All proceeds will be donated to the Sameer Project. Cash also accepted!

NYC Queer Birders is excited to make our annual birding and social gathering event a benefit for Palestinian mutual aid! As ecocide and genocide continue to intensify in Gaza, we’ll pledge our resources to support Palestinian life while appreciating the natural world around us.

We will meet at McCarren Park at 11:30am for a delightful bird walk around the park. We'll end the walk at Sprtizenhaus33, where we'll gather at the long tables and share drinks, snacks, and a beautiful time getting to know each other.

All are welcome regardless of prior birdwatching experience. We’re expecting to see bluejays, robins, mourning doves, and nesting red-tailed hawks!

Accessibility Info: McCarren Park’s Driggs/Lorimer entrance is located 0.5 miles from the Bedford Ave and Lorimer Ave L train stations. It is 0.2 miles from the Nassau Ave G station. We will be walking for about 0.5 miles for the duration of the walk and it will take about 1.5 hours. There are 2 public restrooms in the park (903 Lorimer, and McCarren Pool & Play Center). The entrance to Spritzenhaus33 has a staircase of 5 steps to enter.

NYC Queer Birders started in February 2020 as a way to cultivate community and explore the natural world of New York City with LGBTQA+ bird-lovers. Queer Birders hosts birding events all year round, in all 5 boroughs. If you love birds, meeting new people, and spending afternoons outside in a queer-friendly setting, we would love to have you join us! We welcome all bird enthusiasts, regardless of experience.

Find out more about our past and upcoming events on Instagram @queerbirders or send us an email and be added to our list: queerbirders@gmail.com.

Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30).

Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here.

Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry reading featuring
Summer Farah, Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Mallika Singh, Jesús Valles and hosted by mónica teresa ortiz. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A.

Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024) and The Hungering Years (Host Publications, 2026). A member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle, she is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.

ignacio carvajal is a poet, scholar, and translator. ignacio is the author of the chapbooks allow – a litany – (La Resistencia Press 2021) and Plegarias (el suriporfiado/University of Houston 2019) and his poems appear in places like the Acentos Review and the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, among others. ignacio was born in costa rica; they teach Central & Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies and creative writing at the University of California San Diego.

Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator with roots in Puebla, México (Nahua) and the island of Kiskeya. Grounded in a poetics of anticolonialism, their art and writing ask who we are at our most free, and explore the subversions needed in order to arrive there. What can language do for our resistance efforts? How can we use it to birth new worlds and weave our ancestors into the fabric of them?

Destiny Hemphill is a chronically ill ritual worker and poet, living on the unceded territory of the Eno-Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation (Durham, NC). She is co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting (North Atlantic Books 2023) and the author of the poetry collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Action Books, 2023).

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a poet, educator, and scholar. She is a member of the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative, and the author of three chapbooks, including Somewhere Else the Sun is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna*, 2019).

mallika singh is a poet, farmer, and cook living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. their debut chapbook, Retrieval, was published in 2020 by Wendy's Subway. this season they are growing okra, marigolds, hibiscus, and more with their coworkers at Ashokra Farm. find them out in the field or by the river.

Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant writer-performer from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas. Their poems have been featured in the anthologies Here to Stay, Somewhere We Are Human, and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, as well as The New Republic, Tin House, [PANK], The Adroit Journal, The Slowdown, and Code Switch. Here, Valles wishes to echo Rasha Abdulhadi's call to “you, dear reader, to refuse and resist the genocide of Palestinian people. Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must." In solidarity with the people of Palestine, of Congo, of Sudan, of Cuba, with every political prisoner here and everywhere empire threatens life, with every student movement rebelling against the state everywhere.

mónica teresa ortiz is a poet, critic, and memory worker born, raised, and based in Texas. They are the author of Book of Provocations (Host Publications, 2024) and invite you to commit to the liberation of Palestine.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Thinking with Disability and Archives” here.

How are disabled people documented in history? And how do disabled people meet these documents in archives today?

This workshop will investigate different types of archives & archival impacts through two readings: one that illustrates a history of archives created through medical incarceration in Hawaiʻi and one that shows how disabled people experience archives today through first-person accounts.

Participants will be provided with an overview of archives and recordkeeping processes and practices and collectively discuss how disabled people can be and have been documented in archives.

Through addressing different ways of meeting representation, misrepresentation, and erasure, participants will also have the space to reflect on colonialism, settler colonialism, and the power of archives in shaping understandings of history, ourselves, and others.

Auto-captions will be provided for this online event.

Gracen Brilmyer (they/them/iel) is a Disabled researcher working at the intersection of disability and archives. They are the director of the Disability Archives Lab, which hosts multi-disciplinary projects that center the politics of disability, how disabled people are affected by archives, and how to imagine archival futures that are centered around disabled desires.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Outlaw Healing” here.

This workshop introduces participants to what Nadj calls "outlaw healing," which is how criminalized women who use drugs imagine and experiment with transformation, solidarity, and repair beyond incarceration and forced cure.

They will then break down the main themes of "outlaw healing" that are embedded in the stories of these women and ask participants to talk with one another about what it would mean to practice this in their own lives. Beginning from the premise that people who lead criminalized lives have a lot to teach about surviving and evading repression, this workshop will offer space to think outside and beyond the law.

Nadj is a longtime abolitionist, transformative justice, and harm reduction organizer based in NYC and Hartford, CT. When they're not riding the Metro North, they can be found reading science fiction, hiking, and knitting.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Getting Started in Literary Translation” here.

In this workshop, Spanish to English literary translator Rosalind Harvey will offer participants practical advice on how to break into and survive the profession of literary translation, including choosing a project, pitching to publishers, negotiating contracts, and other tips you can use right away.

Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator from Spanish to English, an educator, and co-founder of the Emerging Translators Network (UK), which supports early-career translators worldwide, working primarily into English. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Royal Literary Fund fellow, and was a runner up for the 2024 Valle-Inclán Prize.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Let’s Make Beni-Imo Tart” here.

In this workshop, Nozomi and alice will teach participants how to make Beni-imo Tart, an Okinawan dessert featuring Beni-imo, or Okinawan sweet potato. Together, we’ll learn about the cultural significance of Beni-imo, and the importance of community in Okinawan foodways. By the end of the workshop you'll have made yourself a Beni-imo tart and have learned more about the Ryukyu islands as well as the lessons its foodways give us.

Participants will need to acquire the following ingredients before the workshop:

- 4-5 medium-sized Beni-Imo*
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 egg (optional)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- 1 premade pie shell (flaky or graham cracker crust) OR make your own!

*Some grocery stores sell benimo as "Hawaiian sweet potatoes." Benimo are tannish-white on the outside with small flecks, and purple on the inside. If not available in your local grocery, you can also substitute with regular sweet potatoes or Japanese sweet potatoes.

Nozomi Nakaganeku-Saito is Assistant Professor at Amherst College in English and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies. Her research focuses on the impacts of US militarism and Japanese settler colonialism on Okinawan ecologies.

alice’s research is rooted in understanding community resilience. Her work centers on themes of care, food, education, and survivance, exploring the lessons embedded in foodways and the insights they offer us. alice is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at UT Austin.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Anticolonial Resistance from Puerto Rico to Palestine” here.

This workshop will explore the connections between anticolonial struggle in Puerto Rico and Palestine. Participants will learn about the history of U.S. colonization in Puerto Rico and how that has led Puerto Ricans to understand themselves as part of a shared struggle against colonial and military violence alongside Palestinians.

Marisol LeBrón is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019) and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021). Along with Yarimar Bonilla, she is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019). She is also one of the co-creators and project leaders for the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rican debt crisis. 

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “The Palestine Research Center, Beirut” here.

In this workshop, Louis Allday will discuss the history of the PLO's Palestine Research Center which operated in Beirut from 1965 to 1983, focusing in particular on Fayez Sayegh’s Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965), Ghassan Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature (1967) and Faris Yahya Glubb’s Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany (1978).

He will also discuss his current project, an English-language translation of A History of Zionism by Sabri Jiryis, who previously ran the Palestine Research Center, and which is forthcoming from Ebb Books in 2025. Participants will have a chance to ask questions and participate in discussion.

Louis Allday is a writer, historian and editor. He is the founding editor of Liberated Texts, a book reviewing and publishing project dedicated to reviewing and (re)publishing works that have been neglected, overlooked or suppressed in the mainstream since their publication.

Step 1: Donate to Tia’s family here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Trauma-Informed Reporting” here.

In this workshop, Marah Abdel Jaber will provide a practical guide on documenting community stories, utilizing oral history collection tools, and exploring journalism’s role in generating personal histories.

Organizers and aspiring writers interested in storytelling as impactful action will learn how to approach individuals and subjects sensitively throughout the pitching, interviewing, and writing process while being mindful of their own trauma consumption.

Drawing on examples from the Institute for Palestine Studies’ blog coverage of the genocide in Gaza, this workshop seeks to equip writers with the skills needed to amplify marginalized narratives and highlight local movements.

Marah Abdel Jaber is a Palestinian writer, researcher, and creative. Her work focuses on constructions of the Palestinian nation, fragmented identities, environmental development, creative movements, and imagined space. She holds an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Maroon Resistance, Past and Present” here.

In this workshop, scholar and activist Robert Connell will discuss the history and legacy of Maroon societies in the Caribbean as powerful forms of resistance to slavery in the Americas. Maroons were enslaved Africans and their descendents who escaped their captivity, either fleeing to places where slavery had been abolished or forming their own free societies. 

He will then draw on his own research and fieldwork to discuss how Caribbean Maroon societies in the 21st century continue their freedom struggle by fighting corporate resource extraction on their lands and state encroachment on their sovereignty. Toward the end of the workshop, participants will be invited to discuss the legacies of Maroon struggle and make connections to other present-day forms of Black and Indigenous struggles for autonomy and self-governance.

Robert Connell is a lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of Toronto and co-founder/producer of the End of Isolation Initiative. His publications can be found in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and Against the Current.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $35).

Step 2: Register for “Perfect Victims: A Reading Group” here.

Join Timantha Goff for a reading group on Mohammed El Kurd’s timely new book, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. We will discuss the book’s themes of Palestinian resistance, resilience, and who is deserving of being seen as a worthy victim.

Participants are encouraged to purchase the book from the Workshops4Gaza bookstore, where all proceeds from books are donated to a different Gaza initiative each month.

Timantha Goff (she/her) is a writer, editor, and policy advocate. She has been heavily involved in community-centered journalism and writing delving on environmental justice, housing inequity, police accountability, and Black maternal health.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Autonomies from Below and to the Left” here. (Please indicate on the form whether you will be attending in-person or online)

We have always been non-state peoples. As the civilizational crisis in the west intensifies, many peoples around the world deepen their commitments to their own histories and ways of life by declaring their autonomy.

In this workshop, we will examine the ways that communities continue to turn inward and out to build autonomies otherwise. While many of the cases will come from across the Americas, we will also discuss some historical practices of shared or communal tenure, such as the Palestinian Masha'a. We will look at what place-based autonomy means, how peoples or pueblos use it to preserve and protect life, and what lessons we can draw for our own liberation.

George Quispe is a popular educator, militant researcher and interlocutor of critical theory between abiayala and turtle island. His main areas of research are extractivism, critical thought, biopower and popular power. He recently translated Raul Zibechi’s Constructing Worlds Otherwise (Ak press, 2024), and served as a co-editor for NACLA’s Viva Palestina Libre (2024) volume on the connections between Latin America and Palestine.

Step 1: Donate to Wesam’s family here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Animal Poetics” here.

What happens when an animal enters a poem? This one-session generative workshop features close reading exercises and prompts that encourage poems to transform into habitats where animals can roam. We will read poems by Natalie Diaz, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Gregory Orr among others and pay particular attention to enlivening animals beyond iconography in writing towards faith.

Amogha is a poet and lyric essayist. Her work has recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, Split Lip Magazine, Stanchion Zine and Fahmidan Journal. She was a finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review poetry contest. She lives and writes on the unceded land of the Lək̓wəŋən peoples in Victoria, BC. Find her on Twitter @amocalypse and on Bluesky at @oracleatdelphi.bsky.social.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $35).

Step 2: Register for “Tip of the Spear: A Reading Group” here.

Join Medievalists for Palestine for a reading group on Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt during their conference, Open Access Medieval Studies: Liberation, which will run counter to the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy.

We will discuss Burton’s approach to the archives, which he calls “archival war,” and think critically about the ethical obligations of medieval and historical research practices. We will also discuss how counterinsurgent strategies of the state are replicated in academia — including but not limited to medieval studies.

This will also be a space where participants can think together about what practices can effectively fight these regimes of repression.

Participants are encouraged to purchase Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear from the Workshops4Gaza bookstore, where all proceeds from books are donated to a different Gaza initiative each month.

Medievalists for Palestine (MfP) is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collective of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation. MfP supports the call for BDS and to end Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestine. It rejects the conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism and amplifies the work of groups struggling for and supporting Palestinian liberation.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30).

Step 2: Register for “Editing Yourself and Others” here.

In this fun and informative workshop, writer and translator Jen Calleja will lead participants in a discussion and series of exercises around the editing process. How do we approach re-drafting and editing our work? What are important things to remember when editing other people's work? How can we edit translations, including and especially when we can't read the original language? 

Jen Calleja is an author, publisher and literary translator from German. Her books include the memoir-essay collection Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode  (Rough Trade Books, 2024), the novel Vehicle (Prototype, 2022), and the long-form poem Dust Sucker (Makina Books, 2023). She was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands. She is co-publisher at Praspar Press, which supports Maltese literature in English and English translation. Her latest translation is Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski from MTO Press.

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30).

Step 2: Register for “How to Talk to Kids About Palestine” here.

In this workshop, illustrator Nathi Ngubane will discuss art as a tool for education and communication, and how adults can talk to children about Palestinian liberation. Nathi will then lead us in an all-ages drawing exercise open to parents, kids, and everyone in between.

Nathi Ngubane is a South African-based writer and illustrator. His most recent work is From the River to the Sea: A Colouring Book (Social Bandit Media, 2024), which features illustrations that teach children about the injustice of the Nakba, the history and culture of the land, as well as key concepts driving and sustaining the Palestinian resistance.

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This workshop will provide a historical overview of Tatreez as a Palestinian cultural practice and art, discussing the historical, cultural, social, and political importance of Tatreez for Palestine and Palestinians. Hala and Sabrene will then instruct workshop attendees on the basics of Tatreez and provide materials and patterns for their first Tatreez project.

Please note this is an IN-PERSON workshop that will take place at Open Books in Seattle, Washington.

Hala Saleh is a Tatreez practitioner who lives in the Seattle area. Hala practices the art of Tatreez both as a way to connect to her Palestinian heritage and culture, but also as a way to resist the erasure of Palestinian identity. Hala runs a local Tatreez circle for Palestinians (Seattle Resistance Tatreez), and teaches Tatreez with her good friend Sabrene Odeh.

Sabrene Odeh is the co-director of Baladna, an organization that hosts Palestinian events for the Pacific Northwest community. She is also a Tatreez instructor, community advocate, and proud Palestinian.