To mark the re-publication of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine, this landmark event gathers key authors to reflect on the enduring legacy of Said’s work and its role in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

Jehad Abusalim, Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Saree Makdisi, Max Porter, Jacqueline Rose, Wadie Said, Avi Shlaim and Ahdaf Soueif will consider what The Question of Palestine has become today, and the painful contradiction that Said himself would observe: that Palestinian gains in international moral and cultural standing since the book’s publication have done nothing to prevent the continuous losses of land and life; and that the establishment of Palestinian histories and narratives in the broader public imagination has led not to equality, but to dehumanisation and death on a scale previously unimaginable.

An urgent, unique, unmissable event.

Presented in cooperation with Fitzcarraldo Editions and the Southbank Centre.

This event is Speech-to-Text transcribed (STT) and British Sign Language interpreted (BSL).