Southbank Centre, November 20 2024
The Palestine Festival of Literature
November 27, 2024
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWiBgbkSJ8
The Royal Festival Hall, London To mark Fitzcarraldo Editions' republication of Edward Said’s classic text "The Question of Palestine", we were honoured to bring together Jehad Abusalim (via video), Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Saree Makdisi, Max Porter, Jacqueline Rose, Wadie Said, Avi Shlaim and Ahdaf Soueif - hosted by Aimee Shaalan, at the Royal Festival Hall in London to speak to our current moment within the long history of the Palestinian struggle. They 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.
