In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.
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Priya HEIN (fiction and nonfiction writer; Mauritius) debuted in 2023 with the novel Riambel, which won the Prix Athéna and was recognized as a notable African book for that year by the magazine Brittle Paper. The manuscript had previously won the Prix Jean Fanchette in 2021. Hein was nominated by the National Library of Mauritius for the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and was shortlisted for the Prix de l’Atelier Littéraire in 2021 and the Miles Morland Scholarship in 2023. In 2019, she was a mentee in the International Writing Program's Women’s Creative Mentorship Project. She is currently working on her second novel. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
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