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DEAR SONDOS out now @goodlittlednl
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Dear Sondos by Sondos Al-Saqqa and DNL @dnlreads
@publishingcarcazan

Wars, genocide and tropes aim to erase and separate. Not for Davie and Sondos. Their unlikely connection transcends borders, politics, religion and nationalities with their nost powerful weapon: humanity. And a love of donuts. Their journey invites you as a guest, and offers a blueprint for a new world, challenging old narratives with a new song.

Thank you DNL

#bookstagram #palestine #dearsondos #gaza #readers

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everyone come to @milmundosnyc to hang/chat or join us on the zoom, link in their bio !!!

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Thank you to @dnlreads for kindly sending me a copy of her beautiful book Dear Sondos - a conversation between Davie (dnl) and Sondos Al-Saqqa, a Palestinian living in Gaza. These are correspondences between New York and Gaza. During a time of genocide.

I am honored to not only share stories of those living through these times, but to, in some very small way, show my solidarity with Palestine. We will never stop listening, and never stop sharing your stories. You will NOT be silenced.

Free Palestine.

#bookstagram #freetheoppressed #dearsondos #gaza #freepalestine

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*EVENT RESCHEDULED FOR FALL**Come and meet the authors of the story for our time. Reviewed in The Nerve’s Hotlist as a “labour-of-love, hope-giving project[s] that tend not to happen at the big publishing houses” whose writing is “full of empathy and a youthful lack of inhibition, and really moving,” Dear Sondos makes its US debut right here at Mil Mundos Books where you can hear from the authors and speak to the UK-based publisher.
Wars, genocides and tropes aim to erase and separate. Not for Davie, a Jewish-Italian New Yorker, and Sondos, a Palestinian poet in Gaza. When the two start exchanging messages and then emails following Davie’s connection with Sondos’s poetry collection received as a thank you for Davie’s support, the two conjure a surprising friendship learning about each other’s lives, and realising just how close they are despite their circumstances. Within these two polar yet concurrent realities flicker uniting emotions, personality, the power of empathy and listening, hopes and dreams in impossible times while painful parallel of each author’s respective experience of erasure tenderly resonates.
As Davie and Sondos get to know each other, we join them as their unlikely connection transcends borders, politics, religion and nationalities with their most powerful weapon: humanity.
And a love of donuts.

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Tenderly, I am Devoured x @badwomenbooks — a moment of awe and appreciation for these gorgeous sprayed edges! A literal work of art.

I can’t believe it’s been over a year since this book came into the world. Thank you to everyone who has read + loved it so far 🦢🪽🌊

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💌 The Unlikely Pen Pals: How Letters Across a War Zone Rewrote Humanity

Have you ever had a conversation or correspondence that fundamentally shifted how you see a conflict or a culture?

“”There is something profoundly regretful about two people whose lives were shaped by forces beyond their control, finding each other against all odds.””
This is not a story about politics. It is a story about two women refusing to let the world tell them who the other is.

This is the story of Sondos and Davie.
One in Gaza. One in New York.
One a Palestinian poet. One a Jewish woman questioning what she was never taught.

In an age of instant messaging and algorithmic division, the return of the pen pal feels almost revolutionary.

📖 🔊 Read or Listen to the full, moving account only in The Bard & The Rawi https://thebardandtherawi.com/dear-sondos-authors/

Thank you to @publishingcarcazan , @sondos_tales and @dnlreads for allowing me to share your stories.

#DearSondos #PenPals #PalestinianVoices #JewishVoices #Bookstagram

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The Bard and The Rawi; home for artists, writers & institutions shaping art, literature & culture in the UK and the MENA/ SWANA region.
One Subscription. Unlimited Insight. Boundless Destinations.
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📖 🔊 Read or Listen - Text to Audio Feature

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📚 NEW SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Carcazan Publishing

We are thrilled to launch our new Spotlight series with a publisher that strives for quality over quantity.

Carcazan Publishing was founded in October 2024 with a mission to “”inject new voices into the public discourse to challenge tired narratives.””
Carcazan is carving out space for voices that mainstream publishing often overlooks.

Our Spotlight features:
📖 A Daughter’s Tribute – The story behind Carcazan Publishing.
🌉 The Unlikely Pen Pals – How letters across a war zone rewrote humanity.
💌 A Night of Three Streams with ‘Dear Sondos’ – The book that is changing readers.
⭐ Reviews – What readers are saying about ‘Dear Sondos.’

🔐 Read the full Spotlight Series only in The Bard & The Rawi: https://thebardandtherawi.com/spotlight/

Thank you to @publishingcarcazan @sondos_tales and @dnlreads for allowing me to share your stories.

✍🎨🎥🎭🎶📚
The Bard and The Rawi; home for artists, writers & institutions shaping art, literature & culture in the UK and the MENA/ SWANA region.
One Subscription. Unlimited Insight. Boundless Destinations.
📣 Follow Us And Subscribe To the Dialogue

#CarcazanPublishing #DearSondos #IndependentPublishing #PalestinianVoices #JewishVoices

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I asked you guys which books you associate with me…

When I saw @villainousbooks do this trend I knew I had to hop on, it’s so wholesome and fun to see what books people associate with you.

I got so many answers, I was shocked. However, the books you all chose did not surprise me one bit. The same 7 books kept coming up, meaning I’m doing something right. Please consider this propaganda. I love these books, you should too.

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Infernal Devices (or any shadowhunter books) by Cassandra Clare
• A Little Life by Hanya Hanagihara
• Babel by R.F Kuang
• If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
• The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
• This is How you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Did I miss any? Are there any other books you think should’ve been on this list?

I’ve tagged some friends that I think should hop on this trend if they haven’t already <3

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A beautiful video left by Sondos, in Gaza, in case she can't join us for a call finishes off our event with @publishingcarcazan and @dnlreads!

Thank you so much for all of the emotions and questions from everyone that attended and the heartbreaking answers from Davie that should be heard by everyone.

We reach out our hands to everyone in countries of war and try our best to support by having these types of events for visibility and charitiy products like Palestine Cola that goes straight to families in Palestine.

See you all soon!

#woking #bookshop #author #eventvenue #coffeeshop

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#explore #reels #pakistan #fyp #trend

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✨𝐀𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓✨

Hunger Games fans, this is for you! This stunning rebind of The Hunger Games Catching Fire was made by @dnlreads 😍

This item is available to bid on starting March 20th! To browse all items, visit the link in our bio!

International shipping!

#pressthepatriarchy #thehungergames

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Join us for a slightly different author event where @dnlreads will be calling in from New York and talking about their book, their inspirations and to answer any questions you might have about the theme in question.

Join us for the event at 13:00 running until 15:00 or longer depending on the Q&A.

Entry tickets will be available on our website in our featured events tab.

Entry will be either a coffee, a cake, a copy of Dear Sondos or all of them if you choose to, just anything to support us and/or the author!

#book #author #bookshop #event #woking #booklover #afternoon #coffee #cake #vegan

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