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KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker

Festival confirmed writer and academic would appear in two sessions in 2026 following disinvitation from Adelaide event

The Guardian - AU

Adelaide writers’ week was cancelled two weeks ago. ‘Not Writers’ Week’ is determined to do things differently

Constellations – or ‘Not Writers’ Week’ – has been pulled together by a grassroots coalition of authors who have turned ‘heartbreak’ into a community-led event – and one that won’t police speakers’ social media

The Guardian - AU

British indie band Pulp agree to play Adelaide festival after boycott U-turn

The band pulled out over treatment of Randa Abdel-Fattah but delayed revealing their decision before confirming 27 February gig

The Guardian - AU

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Teal MPs call out Coalition over stance on hate speech laws – as it happened

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‘Masterclass in poor governance’: what was the board’s role in the end of Adelaide Writers Week?

This afternoon, Adelaide Writers Week was cancelled for 2026 – less than a week after Palestinian-Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was disinvited by the Adelaide Festival board. This came despite the “strongest opposition” from Writers Week director Louise Adler, who resigned this morning. The board has announced its remaining members will…

The Conversation

Major arts festival in doubt after Jacinda Ardern joins mass boycott over axing of Palestinian writer

More than 70 prominent figures are boycotting the Adelaide Festival for dropping Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah in the wake of the Bondi attack

The Independent UK

Jacinda Ardern pulls out of Adelaide writers’ week as fallout over Randa Abdel-Fattah’s axing continues

Ructions within festival board over Palestinian-Australian academic’s inclusion began in October, email reveals

The Guardian - AU

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As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?

The decision by the Adelaide Festival Board to exclude Palestinian Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week on the grounds of “cultural sensitivity” is based on a dangerously broad and vague criterion for suppressing free speech.

The Conversation

Almost 50 writers boycott Adelaide festival after it dumps pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah

Helen Garner and Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser among 47 people who have pulled out of annual writers’ festival to protest Abdel-Fattah’s axing

The Guardian - AU

‘I have no interest in the white gaze any more’: Randa Abdel-Fattah on Gaza, boycotts and her new novel

Discipline follows a journalist and an academic navigating censorship in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza – an issue the author is no stranger to herself

The Guardian - AU

ARC suspends $870,000 grant to pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, senators told

ARC chief Prof Peter Shergold defends decision at estimates hearing but is accused of bowing to allegations in ‘racist’ media

The Guardian - AU

Education minister accused of ‘political interference’ over review of funding for prominent pro-Palestinian academic

Jason Clare has asked Australian Research Council board to investigate $870,000 grant to Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has faced criticism for controversial comments

The Guardian - AU

Mother of Egyptian activist starts hunger strike to call for his release

The mother of a prominent Egyptian rights activist has said that she has started a hunger strike to pressure authorities to release her son Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who rose to prominence with the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that swept the Middle East and in Egypt toppled long-time President Hosni Mubarak

The Independent UK

A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza

Ten-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abuel-Jedian is the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza and he's now paralyzed in the leg

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Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza's ranks of thousands of orphans

Two-year-old Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the lone survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings

The Guardian - AU

‘What is our future?’: the Nauru detention centre was empty. Now 100 asylum seekers are held there

The number of asylum seekers at the centre has been slowly growing, with fears they will spend years trapped on the island

International Business Times

Syrian Farmers Abandon The Land For Steadier Jobs

After years of war, drought and economic crisis, Omar Abdel-Fattah was forced to rent out his farmland in northeast Syria, preferring a more stable job to provide for his family.

Al Jazeera

‘We’ll have more’: Palestinians in Lebanon lay killed Hamas leader to rest

Palestinians refugees from across the country pay their respects to top Hamas commander Saleh al-Arouri.

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Challenge to NYU Law Review's Race and Sex Preferences May Proceed Pseudonymously, at Least for Now

[UPDATE: Added a brief discussion of pseudonymity and class actions.]

The Guardian - UK

How we met: ‘I was stranded on a climb. I called for help – and he answered’

Jane, 62 and Abdel, 60, met in a small Berber town while she was travelling in Morocco in 2005. They married months later, and now split their time between Tafraoute and Cornwall

The Guardian - UK

Eritrea accused of forcibly repatriating civilians caught up in Sudan fighting

More than 3,500 refugees are said to have been forcibly deported over the border in recent weeks

Al Jazeera

Sudanese dual citizens who returned home uprooted by conflict

Dual nationals are frustrated by their foreign embassies and make their own evacuation plans.

The Guardian - UK

‘Focus on the joy’: Morocco v France match is symbolic for Moroccan diaspora

Dual-national French-Moroccan citizens are ‘split in two’ but World Cup semi-final is also ‘bringing people together’, say football fans

The Independent UK

Family: Egypt activist deteriorated since hunger strike

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says that they have seen him and that his condition has “deteriorated severely.”

The Independent UK

Imprisoned Egyptian activist calls off hunger strike

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says they received a letter from him on Tuesday

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