Seminars & Lectures

‘Narratives Of Hope: Palestine in Literature’ at AUB

Tuesday, Dec 2, 2014
2:00pm -> 4:00pm
American University of Beirut (AUB)

The Arts and Humanities Initiative, The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, and The English Department would like to invite you to a lecture by Ibrahim Nasrallah titled: “Narratives Of Hope: Palestine in Literature.”

With
Tariq Mehmood
Rania Masri
Abo Gabi
Amal Kaawash

Ibrahim Nasrallah was born to Palestinian parents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugee camp there. He has written fifteen collections of poetry and eleven novels as well as works of literary criticism. He is also a painter and photographer. He is considered one of the most influential and widely read Arab authors.

Rania Masri is the Associate Director of the Asfari Institute. She is a human rights advocate and an environmental scientists. She will moderate the session.

Amal Kaawash is a Palestinian illustrator, vocalist and song writer. She will reflect on Palestinian poetry published in Lotus and will also render one vocally.

Abo Gabi is a Palestinian from Yarmouk camp in Syria, living in Beirut. He recently released is debut album Hijaz Harb in which he has sung a poem by Ibrahim Nasrallah. He will sing this.

Tariq Mehmood is an Assistant Professor at the AUB. He is the Executive Editor of a forthcoming Lotus of Anthologies (AUB press). He will discuss the ideological positions of the Afro-Asian Writer’s Association and how the struggle against Zionism was seen.

Location: Building 37