To Tell Our Stories: The Journeys of Palestinian Narrative
Comma at Edinburgh Radical Book Fair
Price: 6.00
Discount Price: 0.00
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Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU. This event will also be streamed online.
About the event
This event is a part of Radical Book Fair 2024: From Where We Stand series..
Basma Ghalayini, translator and editor of Palestine+100, and Sami Hermez, author of My Brother, My Land will appear at the opening night of the fair. Together, they will seek to untangle the ways Palestinian narratives are held, framed, rejected or passed on in the world, and what it involves to be the one who carries someone else’s story.
The event will be chaired by Noor Hemani
Basma Ghalayini is an Arabic-language translator and interpreter born and grew up in the Gaza Strip. She is series editor on all of Comma Press's Arabic titles, including the anthology Palestine+100, and has written for The New York Times.
Sami Hermez, PhD, is the director of the Liberal Arts Program and associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University in Qatar. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (UPenn 2017) and My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Stanford 2024). His broader research concerns include the study of social movements, the state, the future, memory, violence, and critical security in the Arab World.
