Antony Lowenstein will be in two events at this year's Newcastle Writers Festival!
Date & Time:
31 March 2025
Antony Lowenstein at Newcastle Writers Festival 2025
Date & Time:
31 March 2025
The Cost of War: Gideon Levy and Antony Loewenstein in Conversation
Join award-winning journalists Gideon Levy and Antony Loewenstein for an urgent and thought-provoking discussion about the war in Palestine. They speak to Drew Ambrose about the broader regional impact, the profound humanitarian catastrophe, the role of international actors and media, and the complex challenges to achieving lasting peace.
Gideon Levy will appear via livestream.
Saturday, April 5
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
University of Newcastle NUspace X320
Level 3
Cnr Hunter & Auckland St
Newcastle NSW 2300
Words of Warning: The State of Democracy
At a time when democracy faces unprecedented challenges, literature remains a powerful tool for reflecting, resisting, and reclaiming freedom. Join Antony Loewenstein and Misha Zelinsky for a thought-provoking conversation about the current state of democracy, the alarming rise of totalitarianism, and the role of writers in a time of crisis. Hosted by Peter Greste.
Sunday, April 6
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Civic Playhouse
375 Hunter St
Newcastle NSW 2300
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The Palestine Laboratory
WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF PEOPLE’S CHOICE AT THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA SOCIAL IMPACT BOOK OF THE YEAR
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel’s occupation-enforcing technologies.
For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an ‘enemy’ population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control, using the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world.
The Palestine Laboratory shows in depth and for the first time how Israel has become a leader in developing spying technology and defence hardware that fuels some of the globe’s most brutal conflicts — from the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos’s and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, and the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas, to the drones being used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.
In a global investigation that uncovers secret documents, based on revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting, Antony Loewenstein shows how, as ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate tools for despots and democracies.
