From the Archives at the Mosaic Rooms

Ghassan Zaqtan reads from Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me

In 'Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me', Ghassan Zaqtan’s tenth poetry collection, translator Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers new works by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time. Ghassan Zaqtan was born in 1954 near Bethlehem and lives in Ramallah. He has worked with the Palestinian resistance movement and was editor of Bayader, the literary magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. He is efitor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry journal Al-Shoua’ra and is co-founder and director of the House of Poetry in Ramallah. Fadi Joudah is a practicing physician of internal medicine and an award-winning poet and translator. Among his translations are two poetry collections by Mahmoud Darwish, 'The Butterfly’s Burden' and 'If I Were Another', for which he won the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award. He was also the winner of the 2008 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation [http://www.banipaltrust.org.uk/prize/award2008.cfm] for 'The Butterfly’s Burden'. https://archive.mosaicrooms.org/event/ghassan-zaqtan-2/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Voices of the Nakba: Salman Abu Sitta, Lena Jayyusi, Mahmoud Zeidan, Diana Allan

These living histories and testimonies from first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are shared by contributors the book Voices of the Nakba. This conversation took place as part of the Stateless Heritage exhibition by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti at the Mosaic Rooms in London, 23 November 2021. Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine is released by Pluto Press. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Alisher Khassengaliyev: Anti-nuclear activism in Kazakhstan

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples. These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.  Mixing by Justin Tam Design by Rand Hamdallah Music by Dirar Kalash ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Samia Henni: French architectural violence in Algeria and the Sahara

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples. These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.  Mixing by Justin Tam Design by Rand Hamdallah Music by Dirar Kalash ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

David Burns: Indigenous resistance to British nuclear “testing” in Maralinga, South Australia

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples. These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.  Mixing by Justin Tam Design by Rand Hamdallah Music by Dirar Kalash ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.