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SUMMARY:Book Reading: "Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader" at P21 Gallery London
DESCRIPTION:Book here \nWith readings and illustrated presentations\, this book launch celebrates the UK publication of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader\, an anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance\, with selections of memoir\, short stories\, essays\, book reviews\, personal narrative\, poetry\, and art. The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is\, above all\, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives\, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them. In times of devastation\, poetry\, literature\, and art are the mediums through which oppressed peoples reveal cherished aspects of their existences and remain defiant in the fight for self-determination. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland\, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres\, so do the Palestinians\, and their struggles and triumphs. \nThis anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history\, and highlights writing from 2021–2024. The collection of writing and art includes: Dispatches from Hossam Madhoun\, co-founder of Gaza’s Theatre for Everybody\, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza; Novelist Ahmed Masoud with “Application 39\,” a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics; Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with “The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue\,” an analysis of Israel’s divide and conquer policies of fragmentation; Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdi’s book\, Imagining Palestine\, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance; Essayist Lina Mounzer with “Palestine and the Unspeakable\,” an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians; And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008). Sumūd also includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists. \nSumūd: a New Palestinian Reader is published by 7 Stories Press. Books will be available on sale at the event. \nThis event is hosted by P21 Gallery with support from Arts Canteen. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nMalu Halasa is co-editor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and Literary Editor at The Markaz Review. \nJordan Elgrably is co-editor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz Review. \nNadine Aranki is the art editor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and West Bank curator and writer. \nSaeed Taji Farouky is a contributor to Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader\, filmmaker\, journalist and educator/lecturer. \nBook here
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LOCATION:P21 Gallery\, 21-27 Chalton Street\, London\, NW1 1JD\, United Kingdom
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