Wednesday, July 3rd | 14:00-15:00
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

Ahmed Murtaja, a writer from Gaza, wrote: “My language gave out with the first child who was trying to describe an entire city burning after having never before seen a flame bigger than a matchstick.”

Throughout these months of ongoing genocide, the people of Gaza, including but not limited to its poets and writers, provided us with texts and testimonies documenting the brutality of the Zionist killing machine. How can words accommodate all this anger, frustration, and resentment at such cruel oppression? What is our responsibility, as a people under colonialism, in the face of what we read, hear, and see?

In this session, we will read texts written under the fire of bombardment about motherhood, the home, war, captivity, hunger, and nostalgic remembrances of the past.