Northampton, Massachusetts
Est. 2024
Each with its own budget, goals & measures
We envision a world where our bookshelves reflect the communities that we live in, where every voice is heard and valued, and the transformative power of literature, storytelling and artistic expression fuels global interest toward equity and widespread cultural representation and understanding.
Four programs
Produces, publishes and promotes high quality, beautifully illustrated books that showcase and preserve cultural heritage — commissioning, publishing, translating and archiving narrative works that capture key cultural moments, and keeping them accessible through our classroom bookshelves initiative.
Supports the translation, production and promotion of leading writers from the Arab World whose voices go unheard in the West. In collaboration with the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, we tour award-winning authors and their translators to twelve colleges and universities each year.
Nurtures writers, illustrators and literary professionals from underrepresented communities through retreats, community building and skill development. The Arab Writers Retreat, Palestinian KidLit camp and Queer KidLit camp offer vital space for creative growth and cultural exchange.
Engages the public through author tours, community events and literary gatherings that promote storytelling and cross-cultural dialogue. Our speaker series and the Read & Resist Festival draw national audiences, while our Western Massachusetts facility anchors regional programming.
Featured from the imprint
Origins and Evolution · Hanan Karaman Munayyer
The most exhaustive and up-to-date study of the origins of Palestinian embroidery and costume — from antiquity through medieval Arab textile arts to the present. A joyous celebration of pattern and color, and of an enduring Palestinian tradition.
What’s on
Edward Said
Storytelling is a cultural activity, and it is also an incredibly effective form of advocacy. By amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering empathy, literature contributes meaningfully to the ongoing work of making the world a better place.
A family, a press, and forty yearsThe Foundation was founded by members of the Moushabeck family, descendants of a long line of poets, thinkers and creatives from the Katamon neighborhood in Al Quds (Jerusalem). Displaced during the 1948 Nakba and later the Lebanese Civil War, the family resettled in Brooklyn.
In response, Michel and Ruth Moushabeck founded Interlink Publishing in 1987. Nearly forty years on it remains family-owned — the leading U.S. publisher of books from the SWANA region and the only Palestinian-owned publishing house in the country.
The Moushabeck family launched the Interlink Foundation in late 2024. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit we build on that legacy through publishing, education and community-building.
We are supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Cultural Sustainability program, made possible by the Wallace Foundation.