Symposium
In Partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Culture

Participants: Amer Shomali, Baha Jubeh, Saleh Abd al-Jawad, Ihab Bseiso, Khaled Juma, and Shatha Safi
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

At this point, the genocide in the Gaza Strip will have been ongoing for more than a year. It poses major questions and challenges, including: How can we talk about the annihilation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage at a time when the humans behind them are being exterminated and deprived of their most basic rights? How is a rearrangement of our priorities being imposed upon us by the fact that we are failing our people, the top priority of all?

This symposium will be held on Palestinian Heritage Day in partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Culture. The Ministry formalised this day in 1999 to celebrate the richness of Palestinian heritage and values. This year, those considerations take a backseat to a focus on addressing the genocide and what it entails of the extermination of people and place- and the accompanying distortion of the Palestinian narrative.

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