The Textual Materialist
Rebecca Ruth GouldWhere poetry and politics meet. \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8Palestine, Iran & the Caucasus. Cultural criticism from a global perspective.
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How Gaza Changed the World
Two new books by Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar on Israel's long war on Palestine
About the Textual Materialist
Prison and the Writer
Interview with Palestinian Nasser Abu Srour
You can listen to an audio recording of the introduction here:
The Art of Iranian Resistance
Pamela Karimi on the role of street art in Iranians' struggle for freedom
I began this newsletter in earnest amid the Gaza genocide. The next post after this one will be my long-awaited interview with the Palestinian political prisoner Nas...
Translation, Creation, Activism
Exclusive audio and slides from my talk at Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Welcome paid subscribers! In the first of a series exclusively for paid members of the community, I am posting bonus materials here. This one is an audio record...
Inside Egypt’s Prisons: Writing to Stay Alive
Prison literature series No. 2: On Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated by Collective Antigone
What does it mean to write in a carceral context, when writing itself is a crime?
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Where poetry meets politics. \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 Palestine. Prison writing. Forced starvation. The Textual Materialist newsletter. My books: Strangers (2025), Erasing Palestine (2023), Prison Hunger Strikes (2023), Persian Prison Poem (2021). Professor@SOAS
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