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Now, the board has asked the Palestinian activist and author to consider attending next year&#8217;s event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award-winning author of 11 novels, said while she accepted the board\u2019s apology, she would consider the invitation to participate next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisers of Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week said on Tuesday that the event could no longer go ahead following a wave of speaker withdrawals and board resignations prompted by the removal of Abdel-Fattah from the lineup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adelaide Festival has apologised unreservedly. Vindication<br>My response. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8mqm7xGAKH\">pic.twitter.com\/8mqm7xGAKH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Randa Abdel-Fattah (@RandaAFattah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandaAFattah\/status\/2011596994431893540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, the board said it was retracting its earlier decision to exclude Abdel-Fattah \u201cfrom participating as a speaker at Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week this year\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have reversed the decision and will reinstate Dr Abdel-Fattah\u2019s invitation to speak at the next Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week in 2027,\u201d the board said in a statement, apologising \u201cunreservedly for the harm\u201d it had caused to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntellectual and artistic freedom is a powerful human right,\u201d the board said, acknowledging that it had fallen \u201cwell short\u201d of upholding that right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI accept this apology as acknowledgement of our right to speak publicly and truthfully about the atrocities that have been committed against the Palestinian people\u201d and \u201ca vindication of our collective solidarity and mobilisation against anti-Palestinian racism, bullying and censorship\u201d, she said in a statement shared on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdel-Fattah, who is also a lawyer and sociologist, said she would agree to appear as a speaker \u201cin a heartbeat\u201d if Louise Adler, who resigned as the director of Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week in protest at the board\u2019s decision, \u201cwas the director again\u201d, but said she had not yet decided if she would accept the invitation to appear next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdel-Fattah also said the board\u2019s initial decision to cancel her participation highlighted problems, including \u201cthe need for urgent antiracism education\u201d and \u201cthe need for 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