Author: gantalapress
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Resistance, Contradiction, and Critique: Committed Writing Now
Faye CuraKeynote speech at the 5th Edel Garcellano ConferenceAteneo de Manila University, November 29, 2025 Magandang umaga sa lahat. Thank you to the organizers of the 5th Edel Garcellano Academic Conference for inviting me to deliver the keynote speech on the theme, “Committed Writing Now.” As a committed non-academic, I am super humbled. I am…
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Hanggang sa Tagumpay: Boycott Frankfurt Book Fair
At the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) or Frankfurter Buchmesse, the FBF-funded LitProm association canceled that year’s LiBeraturpreis for Palestinian writer Adania Shibli “due to the war started by Hamas.” This “war” referred to the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, which Zionists and their supporters have since used to justify Israel’s decimation of Palestine.…
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Palay at Tula: Mga Ani sa Pakikibaka
Rebyu sa Nanay Magsasaka: Mga Tula ni Marites N. Nicart, Gantala Press, 2025ni Aila Mae Bermejo LAGOM NG KOLEKSIYONAng Nanay Magsasaka ay koleksiyon ng mga tula tungkol sa isa sa pinakamalaking kabalintunaan sa lipunan: silang mga nagbubungkal, nagtatanim, at nag-aani ay sila ring walang makain at lupang pagmamay-ari. Ginalugad ang mga ito sa mga tula…
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HeART of Gaza: Children’s Art from the Genocide
Noong nakaraang ika-4 ng Oktubre, opisyal na inilunsad ang HeART of Gaza: Children’s Art from the Genocide—isang exhibit ng mga dibuho at likhang-sining ng ilang mga bata mula sa Gaza. Sa mga dibuho ng mga batang mula apat na taong gulang hanggang 17 taong gulang ay makikita ang lipunang ibinunga ng nagaganap na henosidyo. Sa…
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Filipinos are Palestinians: Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair!
The Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani wrote that imperialism had “laid its body over the world,” and that the Palestinian cause is “a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is. A cause of the exploited and oppressed masses.” Kanafani declared, and we chant this today, “In our thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians.”(1) The…
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The Frankfurt Book Fair’s Complicity in the Genocide
I am Faye Cura, publisher of Gantala Press which is a member of the Publishers for Palestine network. I would like to take this opportunity to share exactly how the Frankfurt Book Fair is complicit in the genocide and why a Boycott is the best course of action for publishers. Data comes from a comprehensive…
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Bakit Boycott? An online forum on the Frankfurt Book Fair and Palestine
The Philippines is Guest of Honor at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair. On International Children’s Book Day, join us in discussing the impacts of neoliberalization on Philippine publishing; the Palestinian struggle’s movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions as applied to cultural work and the fair in particular; and how publishers, writers, and book makers all…
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On the Frankfurt Book Fair, Bagong Pilipinas, and Palestine
Published on Rappler.com on Feb 1, 2024 Faye Cura After years of lobbying by the National Book Development Board, the Philippines was finally named Guest of Honor in the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). The Guest of Honor has the important task of increasing attendance to the fair. A Guest of Honor country’s publishing industry…