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Past Events
30 October 2024
6.00pm to 8.30pm UK time (GMT)
Zoom October Bookclub Meeting
6.00pm to 8.30pm UK time (GMT)
Zoom October Bookclub Meeting
The book under discussion for the October bookclub is
Out of GAZA
New Palestinian Poetry
edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison
JOINING THE DISCUSSION ARE
Atef Alshaer, one of the editors,
and Marwan Makhoul, one of the poets
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These works by 15 Palestinian Poets,
include poems by Refaat Alareer and Hiba Abu Hada,
both of whom have lost their lives in the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Out of Gaza, edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison
has been widely reviewed, and is available as a paperback
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At the beginning of the Fifth Gaza War, the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer defiantly promised that if the Israeli Defence Force attacked his house he would ‘throw my pen in the faces of the soldiers’. A few weeks later, Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike on the building.
Since the outbreak of the ‘Israel-Hamas war’ in October 2023, over 40k Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, almost all of them civilians. Four thousand children were killed in the first few weeks of the war. A third of all the houses have been destroyed, together with the water and electricity infrastructure, 300 schools, 26 hospitals and 88 mosques, turning Gaza into what UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called a ‘graveyard’.
Out of Gaza brings together responses to the current crisis by 15 Palestinian poets – Ali Abukhattab, Refaat Alareer, Hala Alyan, Farid Bitar, Tariq Luthun, Marwan Makhoul, Mohammed Mousa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Samah Sabawi, Sara M Saleh, Deema K Shehabi, Dareen Tatour, Mosab Abu Toha, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Hiba Abu Nada, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza. These are poems of rubble and resilience, death and resistance; they speak about displacement, occupation, exile and bombardment. Angry with the world’s silence in the face of such tragedy, these poems bear witness to catastrophe and to the powerful determination to survive it.
A percentage of the sales of this book go to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
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Published by Smokestack Books
ISBN 978-1739473457
110 pages
Published 1 March 2024
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ALL WELCOME
Email bookclub@banipal.co.uk to request the Zoom login,
which will be sent out to all sign-ups on Monday 28 October.
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