Palestinian-American poet, journalist, teacher and activist Noor Hindi's debut poetry collection Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow published by Haymarket Books, was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award. 

She reads us several  poems from this collection  - ‘Palestine’, ‘Breaking News’, ‘Swearing Allegiance’. And ‘A Day, A Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?’ for Rouzan al-Najjar after / in defiance of a piece published by the New York Times about al Najjar'. 

She’s currently editing a Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us also published by Haymarket Books - which is due out in May. 

We talk about this anthology and her insights into political writing, organising and radical art, the power of stories especially in the Palestinian context, going beyond witness towards action + more.

'I also think the idea of witness is limited in that I think it is the beginning of a process for social justice and community building, not the end...I think that we need to move beyond this idea of witness too. Maybe the first step is awareness of an atrocity and knowing that some violence is happening and sharing it and talking about it, and then the next step is organising around a way to help.' - Noor Hindi

Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Produced by Bairbre Flood.