Alareer Book Club for Solidarity with Palestine

Islington PSC

Islington-based book club focused on the collective resistance, struggles, and liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people.

Housmans Bookshop

Islington PSC invites you to the second session of our Alareer bookclub series in collaboration with Housmans Bookshop, focused on reading about the collective resistance, struggles, and liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people.<a href="https://housmans.com/" title="https://housmans.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Housmans Bookshop</a>, one of the longest-running radical bookshops in the UK, specialises in books on feminism, anarchism, anti-racism, anti-fascism, LGBTQIA+ politics, socialism, and nonviolence. They sand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and are a beloved, crucial part of Islington’s cultural fabric.Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies by Heba Hayek is our pick for May. Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies is written for those who had to leave — collected remembrances of a childhood in Gaza by a woman far from Palestine’s sun and sea. Overindulgent, chaotic and sentimental, Heba Hayek’s narrator struggles to navigate life in colder, unfamiliar worlds. She holds tightly to memories of home, hoping they will lead back to her sisters and mothers. We are also honoured to have Heba joining us to facilitate discussions on the book, alongside us.You can purchase the book in store and <a href="https://housmans.com/product-tag/psc-book-club/" title="https://housmans.com/product-tag/psc-book-club/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">online</a> at Housmans Bookshop for £12.50We invite you to register for the event on 4th May 2025, from 3 PM to 5 PM. As space is limited, we kindly request you to sign up only if you are certain you can attend.Money raised from ticket sales will go directly to the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thesameerproject/" title="https://www.instagram.com/thesameerproject/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sameer Project</a>, supporting displaced Palestinian families in Gaza.If you require a concession due to low income or unemployment, please email us at islingtonpsc@gmail.com, and we can register you for free—no questions asked.Refaat Alareer was a Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on December 6, 2023. In response to the threat of zionists storming his home, Alareer said "I'm an academic, the toughest thing I have at home is an Expo marker. But if the Israelis invade ... I'm going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I would be able to do." We pay homage to Alareer and strive to carry on his mission of using storytelling as resistance.

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