Saeed Teebi

is the acclaimed writer of Her First Palestinian and 
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination.


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COMING OCTOBER 2025

You Will Not Kill Our Imagination 

A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

A vital, fearless memoir in the vein of Between the World and Me that explores what it means to be a Palestinian in this moment, the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination, and that to even claim a belonging to the land from a country thousands of miles away is an act of subversion.

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Imagination is a more powerful force than hope.

Acclaimed author Saeed Teebi was at work on his first novel when the attacks on Gaza began in late 2023. The violence and cruelty of the attacks, accompanied by the assent and silence of international governments, stunned many across the globe, like Teebi, into a new state of permanent horror.

What does it mean to be of the Palestinian diaspora in such a moment? What does it mean to be of a people who have sustained such a large-scale assault not only on their homeland, but their entire identity? What is the role of art, of language—of imagination—in asserting one’s identity, when that very assertion is read as an act of subversion?

In this incisive work, Teebi explores, with searing, razor-sharp prose, the effects of genocide on the bodies, minds, and imaginations—of Palestinians especially, and humanity in general.

This is at once a memoir of one family’s displacement, a scathing indictment of global complicity in the face of brutality, and a profound rumination on art and imagination as a means of defiance. It is an astonishing work of resistance by a major intellect, and it is both urgent and timeless.


“With laparoscopic precision, Teebi deconstructs the mechanics of self-deception, auto-editing, and soul-selling that have made genocide possible. This is an extraordinary gift of sense-making and tongue de-tangling, at once gorgeous and devastating. Most of all, it is a reminder that art still has the power to awaken our imaginations, but only if we let it.”

NAOMI KLEIN
ACCLAIMED AND BESTELLING AUTHOR OF DOPPELGANGER

Coming October 2025


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