This is very exciting. At the beginning of next month, I will participate in the Kalimat Palestine Writers’ Festival. I will be among 14 authors – 10 Palestinian, 4 “international” – who will be holding book readings and discussions in Jerusalem, Haifa, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus. Four of the Palestinian authors involved in this traveling […]
June
18
To love a person, a place, and a thing.
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I rarely get nostalgic about objects. I have very few “things” that are precious to me. There is, though, an old blue backpack. I bought my Serratus Andromeda from MEC in 1997 and spent a year heaving the pack around Western Africa. My year in Africa was my first big journey abroad. It was the […]
Pay No Heed in Ontario
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Friends in Toronto, Windsor, Hamilton and Ottawa please note: I will be bringing the new book back on the road to you next week. Here is a list of my events. Come if you can. Pay No Heed to the Rockets will be part of a dual book-launch with Nahla Abdo’s An Oral History of […]
The Enduring Nakba
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
One of the most important things I learned during my time with the Palestinians was how the Nakba was less a historical event than the beginning of a process that is ongoing. Here is my take, in yesterday’s The Globe and Mail.
May
01
Pay No Heed in the UK
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I will be bringing Pay No Heed to the Rockets to the UK later this month on my first ever overseas tour – and my first ever visit to London. Saqi, my publishers, are keeping me busy. Here is a list of my events. I will be doing a “Meet the Author” event at […]
March
20
Mourid and Me
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
My favourite Palestinian book is Mourid Barghouti’s beautiful 1997 memoir I Saw Ramallah. The book opens with Barghouti crossing the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River into Palestine after 30 years of exile. Barghouti describes stepping out of a Jordanian border post and glancing west across the bridge at the land of Palestine: Who would […]
March
09
Pay No Heed in Calgary
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
My first event for Pay No Heed to the Rockets Palestine in the Present Tense will take place on April 9th. The event, hosted by Omar Mouallem, will be part of a Wordfest mini-festival called “Sane Takes on an Insane World.” I am terribly excited about this. For information and tickets go here.
February
01
The UK cover
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
London-based Saqi Books will be publishing an abridged version of Pay No Heed to the Rockets this May. I love the cover they designed.
December
06
Feeding Gaza
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
The August issue of Geographical Magazine featured my story about the challenges of simply eating while under a military blockade. Here, finally, is a link to “Feeding Gaza.”
November
24
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Not long after I wrote about Olympics bound wrestler Erica Wiebe, she went on to win gold in Rio. I was curious what life is like for a newly minted Olympic champion so I caught up with Wiebe about a year later. My story, “All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter,” follow her through the […]
