Join photographer Ahmed al-Bazz as he talks about his years-long photographic documentation of the depopulation of Palestinian villages and towns - an unbroken line of erasure and destruction from 1948 to today.
Please join us for the UK launch of the National Book Award winning Something About Living at the LRB Bookshop.
Ismail Khalidi asks the actors John Early, Leta Levy and Ahmad Maher and the filmmaker Hind Shoufani to animate the characters of his plays with a performed reading of excerpts. Isabella Hammad then joins Ismail in conversation.
Join writers Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad in conversation about their brand new books.
Mai Serhan in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum about her epic, tricontinental story of a family's fate from the frontlines of the Nakba to a contemporary exile scattered as far as China.
Tamim Al-Barghouti, presents his rewriting of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh in Arabic verse. The UK premiere. One performance only.
Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed on the struggles against colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir.
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Join co-editor George Abraham and contributing poets Zena Agha and Sarona Abuaker for the UK launch of this landmark anthology of Palestinian poetry.
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Join Tareq Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates for a conversation about Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir, a personal and political memoir.
“ We want to focus on the literary industry and materially map its complicity with genocide. We want to get down to the granular: the material workings of refusal, its contradictions, and the new possibilities, directions, and direct actions that might emerge by working through—and against—those contradictions.”
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Join a vital discussion on Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, a poignant collection of testimonies, poetry, photography, and art, featuring Fatima Bhutto, Ahmed Alnaouq, Tareq Baconi, and Ahmed Masoud.
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London, join us to mark the publication of a new anthology of writing by We Are Not Numbers, the highly respected Gazan writing collective.
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London, don’t miss Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first ever UK event and hear about his best-seller, The Message, US complicity in the colonization of Palestine, Black-Palestinian solidarity & much more.
He will be in conversation with Zena Agha.
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Join us for a conversation about the highly anticipated, Perfect Victims & the Politics of Appeal, where Mohammed El-Kurd will be in conversation with Fred Moten.
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Join us at Judson Memorial Church in New York City for the first major public event to mark Mohammed El-Kurd’s long-awaited non-fiction debut, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Mohammed will be joined in conversation by Natalie Diaz.
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Mosab Abu Toha, Sarah Aziza, Nick Estes, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Dina Omar, Sagirah Shahid & Danez Smith at Parkway Theater. Presented in partnership with Mizna.
Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, Sarah Hagi, Malcolm Harris, Nicki Kattoura & Ahmad Shokr come together for our first event in Philadelphia.
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Join us for our first-ever event in Detroit with Zaina Alsous, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Mohammed el-Kurd, Fred Moten & Kamelya Omayma Youssef.
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Join us for a landmark event celebrating the enduring legacy of Edward Said and his seminal work, The Question of Palestine. This event brings together eight key authors to reflect on Said's ideas and their relevance to the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
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Join us at the historic Riverside Church for two conversations with Ta-Nehisi Coates:
• Rabea Eghbariah, Farah Barqawi, Sahar Qawasmi, and Nida Sinnokrot, focusing on the ongoing colonization of Palestine from Gaza to the Galilee, tracing its impact from 1897 to today.
• Noura Erakat and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on thinking beyond the state in the wake of the U.S. presidential election.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Dena Takruri live in conversation on the Struggle for Liberation on October 25th.
The second "Nowhere" post-show talk - this time on solidarity and Palestine in 2024, with Aimee Shalan, Khalid Abdalla and Yasmin El-Rifae.
We’re proud to be partnering with Fuel Theatre and Khalid Abdalla to present to two post-show conversations reflecting on new work, Nowhere. First, The Space of Confinement, with Sanaa Seif, Khalid Abdalla and Yasmin El-Rifae.
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Join us for our second event in Los Angeles where we will be discussing Black-Palestinian solidarity with Robin DG Kelley, Celine Qussiney, Maya Binyam, Adrian Chen, Safia el-Hillo and Amanee Izhaq.
A vital conversation with Reverend Munther Isaac, the internationally respected Palestinian pastor and theologian, and the Palestinian-Iraqi poet, Zena Agha. Venue: EartH, Hackney.
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Join us in London at the SouthBank Centre for our next event - on building new solidarities with Palestine.
This one-off event will feature a discussion of the Fossil Free Books campaign for a genocide, the launch of our new anthology Their Borders Our World, poetry from Jehan Bseiso, music from Kareem Samara, Goat Girl & more.
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On June 17, 2024, McNally Jackson Seaport will host the book launch of Their Borders, Our World.
Edited by PalFest co-curator Mahdi Sabbagh, this anthology brings together twelve highly distinct essays on the international connections running through Palestine and freedom struggles against settler colonialism around the world.
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Alessandra Amin, Tareq Baconi, Mahdi Sabbagh & Omer Shah
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ESEA Publishing Network, Tilted Axis Press & Fitzcarraldo Editions present an evening of readings fundraising for direct aid to Palestinian writers and artists displaced in Egypt, in association with PalFest.
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On June 4 at 2220 Arts & Archives we will co-host the second installment of FREEDOM TO WRITE FOR PALESTINE. Featuring artists who have been censored over Palestine, artists who have pulled out of PEN America events in solidarity & more.
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Randa Jarrar, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Angela Flournoy, Melissa Barrera, Fariha Roisin, Nick Mandernach, Broti Gupta, Poppy Liu, Arij Mikati & Weyes Blood.
e-flux Architecture wraps their Spring 2024 season with “On the Violence of Architecture,” a lecture by Mabel O. Wilson in conversation with PalFest co-curator Mahdi Sabbagh at e-flux on Thursday, May 30 at 7pm.
The renowned writer, designer and theorist will be reading from and discussing her chapter in PalFest’s upcoming anthology, Their Borders, Our World - edited by Mahdi Sabbagh.
