My new book, Walls: Travels Along the Barricades will be released this month and I will be touring the book through Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton this Fall. If you are anywhere near any of these cities in the next little while, please drop by. My tour schedule is as follows: On September 16th, in […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
August
28
Launching Walls
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Here it is, the official book launch poster for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. I decided to hold the event in the back lot of Calgary’s Crown Surplus. Considering the topic of the book, I figured I’d surround my audience with fences, barbed wire, army tents and other shards of military urbanism. I will also […]
August
13
Swifter. Higher. Stronger. Over.
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
A photo, by artist Filiz Ero, that combines my two most recent obsessions: walls and the Summer Olympics. In my new book, I write about people who’ve climbed over or tunneled under their walls. One man crossed a minefield before jumping over his wall. Another put on every shirt he could find so he could […]
July
16
“There is no Jericho moment.”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
The release date for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades fast approaches. My book launch is now scheduled for September 20th. In the months before the release, I wanted to invite some of the ‘wall dwellers’ I met during my travels to post on this blog. First up is Glenn Weyant. I met Glenn in Arizona […]
June
28
Leaving Palestine
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I will miss the evening jasmine. I will miss the blood-red sunsets. I will miss the green neon on the minarets and the calls to prayer they broadcast over the hills. I will miss the way the olive leaves change colour during the day – from green, to silver, to grey. I will miss the […]
June
28
The Prisoners’ Library
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve become interested in the role of writing and reading to contemporary Palestinian identity. I’ve been seeking out book-related stories to write, and was excited with someone told me about the Prisoner’s Library in Nablus. In 1996, the Israelis closed down two prisons they had maintained in the […]
June
21
Walls: The Cover
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Hello all. The Walls book inches closer and closer to publication. Just yesterday I received the final proofed manuscript to sign off on. Once this is done, there is little left to do but wait for the box of writer’s copies to arrive in the mail. There are few greater thrills than tearing open that […]
June
20
The Khalidi Library
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
In addition to my obligations to the Palestine Writing Workshop, I am spending part of my time here in Palestine researching my own stories. I’ve become very interested in the role of writing and reading in contemporary Palestinian society. To that end, I’ve been visiting libraries and bookstores and meeting with writers to talk about […]
The Palestine Writing Workshop
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I’m a little more than halfway through my residency here at the Palestine Writing Workshop in Birzeit. Here is a belated post of what I’ve been up to: I arrived in Birzeit, a village not far from Ramallah, at the beginning of June. My main role here is to lead a three-week creative nonfiction workshop […]
“Palestinian inhibition in the Walled City of Bethlehem”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I’ve been the Writer-in-Residence in Birzeit for a couple weeks now, and have yet to post about my experiences here. I have plenty to write about – excellent sessions with the workshop participants, interviews with Palestinian circus artists, a tour of a library housing ancient texts in Jerusalem’s Old City, a visit to the grave […]
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