| 8 Oct 2021 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online | |
- Description
Description
An event organised by Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin Network.
Speakers
- Mosab Abu Toha (Bilingual poet, essayist, and writer)
- Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Department of Semitic and
- Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin)
About the Speakers
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian bilingual poet, essayist, and short story writer from Gaza. A graduate in English language, he taught English at the UNRWA schools in Gaza 2016-2019, and is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library, Gaza’s first English language library (now two branches). In 2019-2020, Mosab became a visiting poet at Harvard University, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature. He is also a columnist for Arrowsmith Press. Mosab’s poetry, essays, and short stories have been or will be published by Poetry, Solstice, Banipal, Periphery, Harvard Human Rights Review, Kikah, Middle East Eye. In 2020, Mosab gave talks and poetry readings at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, the University of Arizona, and the American Library Association Midwinter Exhibits and Meetings.
Refqa Abu-Remaileh is professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project PalREAD-Country of Words, a digital project that explores the history of Palestinian Literature. Abu-Remaileh received her DPhil and MSt in modern Arabic Literature and Film from the University of Oxford, and her BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia.
This event is co-sponsored and co-organised with Literatures of Annihilation, Exile and Resistance Series at the University of Notre Dame, and the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard University.
