BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Markaz Review - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Markaz Review REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250615 DTSTAMP:20260407T154945 CREATED:20250515T101641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T101641Z UID:10000084-1747958400-1749945599@themarkaz.org SUMMARY:TMR Exhibition: Art of the Palestinian Poster at P21 Gallery — Shubbak Festival DESCRIPTION:An evocative exhibition showcases the resurgence of Palestinian political posters as powerful works of art and vital campaigning tools during the war on Gaza for Shubbak 2025. Curated by TMR’s literary editor Malu Halasa\, the collection includes anti-war works by the original members of New Vision collective — artists fundamental to the creation of Palestinian modern art Vera Tamari\, Sliman Mansour\, Tayseer Barakat\, and Nabil Anani — alongside contemporary posters by Gazan artist Hazem Harb\, popular Lebanese musician Khaled El Haber\, and Palestinian new generation poster-maker Haneen Nazzal\, among many others. \nASAD AZI (Palestinian\, B. 1955)\, "EKHTILAL\," 2023\, Acrylic on paper\, 75 x 55 cm BASHAR KHALAF \n(Palestinian\, B. 1991) \n\nGOD\, MAKE THIS HOUSE SAFE (2023) \nCollage on paper \n75 x 55 cm\n DYALA MOSHTAHA \n(Palestinian\, B. 1997) \n\nFREEDOM IN BLOOM (2023) \nFineArt archival paper\, 310 gsm \n75 x 55 cm | Edition of 10 (+AP)\n HASSAN MANASRAH \n(Palestinian\, B. 1980) \n\nPALESTINIAN WOMAN (2023) \nFineArt archival paper\, 310 gsm \n75 x 55 cm | Edition of 10 (+AP)\n HAZEM HARB \n(Palestinian\, B. 1980) \n\nTHEY ARE NOW STEALING YOUR SKIN (2024) Charcoal on paper \n75 x 55 cm\n HOSNI RADWAN \n(Palestinian\, B. 1955) \n\nALL RIGHTS NOT RESERVED - GAZA (2023) FineArt archival paper\, 310 gsm \n75 x 55 cm | Edition of 10 (+AP)\n KHALED EL HABER \n(Labanese\, B. 1956) \n\nWE ARE DOING FINE IN GAZA... WHAT ABOUT YOU?! (2024) FineArt archival paper\, 310 gsm \n75 x 55 cm | Edition of 10 (+AP)\n MOHAMMED JOHA \n(Palestinian\, B. 1978) \n\nSLEEPLESS (2024) \nAcrylic on paper \n75 x 55 cm\n NABIL ANANI \n(Palestinian\, B. 1943) \n\nSTOP THE GENOCIDE (2023) \nMixed media on paper \n75 x 55 cm\n SLIMAN MANSOUR \n(Palestinian\, B. 1947) \n\nDISTORTION (2023) \nFineArt archival paper\, 310 gsm \n75 x 55 cm | Edition of 5 (+AP)\n TAYSEER BARAKAT \n(Palestinian\, B. 1959) \n\nUNTITLED (2023) \nAcrylic and mixed media on paper \n75 x 55 cm\n \nThis collection of artful posters\, originally from the Zawyeh Gallery of Ramallah and Dubai and never before exhibited in the UK\, appear with posters for Palestine hacked into London bus shelters by the anonymous activist group Protest Stencil; the stark infographic posters by the decolonizing collective Visualizing Palestine; and posters that pro-Palestinian protestors downloaded from the internet\, printed\, and carried on demonstrations. An opening night event will take place on May 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm\, £5 admission (more information here). \nA poster roundtable discussion will also take place on June 11 at P21 Gallery (6:30-8:30 pm)\, with Palestinian artist Vera Tamari\, Visualizing Palestine’s Aline Batarseh\, West Bank curator Nadine Aranki\, and Professor Dina Matar from SOAS Centre of Palestinian Studies\, will discuss art in Palestinian resistance and the political and aesthetic impact of Palestinian political posters. \nLearn more about this exhibition \nThe Art of the Palestinian Poster exhibition is part of the London-wide Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture festival. Shubbak Festival (meaning ‘window’ in Arabic) is Europe’s largest biennial celebration of contemporary Arab and SWANA (South West Asian & North African) arts and culture. Taking place from 23 May to 15 June 2025\, the festival will showcase bold\, innovative\, and culturally authentic works across visual arts\, film\, music\, theatre\, dance\, literature\, and debates—connecting audiences in London\, across the UK\, and beyond. \n  URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/tmr-exhibition-art-of-the-palestinian-poster-at-p21-gallery-shubbak-festival/ LOCATION:P21 Gallery\, 21-27 Chalton Street\, London\, NW1 1JD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.23-Art-of-the-Palestinian-Poster-Exhibition-Shubbak-Festival-1920-x-1080-px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250629T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250629T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T154945 CREATED:20250610T122956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250610T122956Z UID:10000086-1751223600-1751227200@themarkaz.org SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses Bothayna Al-Essa's "The Book Censor's Library\," translated by Sawad Hussain & Ranya Abdelrahman DESCRIPTION:RSVP here to participate \nJoin The Markaz Review’s Book Club on Sunday\, June 29th at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET to dive into Bothayna Al-Essa’s “The Book Censor’s Library\,” translated by Sawad Hussain & Ranya Abdelrahman. Hosted by TMR’s Managing Editor\, Rana Asfour. \n\nAbout the book: \nA national book award finalist\, the novel is a reckoning with the global threat to free speech and the bleak future it all but guarantees. Bothayna Al-Essa marries the steely dystopia of Orwell’s 1984 with the madcap absurdity of Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland\, resulting in a dreadful twist worthy of Kafka. The Guardian of Surfaces is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them. \nThe new book censor has not slept soundly in weeks. By day\, he combs through manuscripts at a government office\, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish-allusions to queerness\, unapproved religions\, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night\, pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter\, and the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon\, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters\, undercover booksellers\, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture. \nAbout the author & the translators: \nBothayna Al-Essa (author) is the bestselling Kuwaiti author of nearly a dozen novels and additional children’s books. She is also the founder of Takween\, a bookshop and publisher of critically acclaimed works. Her most recent book\, The Book Censor’s Library\, won the Sharjah Award for Creativity in the novel category in 2021 and is her third novel to appear in English\, after Lost in Mecca and All That I Want to Forget. Al-Essa was author-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation for the summer of 2023\, and the recipient of Kuwait’s Nation Encouragement Award for her fiction in 2003 and 2012. She has written books on writing and led writing workshops throughout the Arab world. \nSawad Hussain is a translator from Arabic whose work in 2023 was shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation\, and longlisted for The Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. She is a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation (2024 cycle). Her most recent translations include Edo’s Souls by Stella Gaitano (Dedalus Books)\, Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani (Neem Tree Press). \nRanya Abdelrahman is a translator of Arabic literature into English. After working for more than 16 years in the information technology industry\, she changed careers to pursue her interest in books\, promoting reading and translation. Abdelrahman has published translations in ArabLit Quarterly\, The Markaz Review\, and The Common\, and is the translator of Out of Time\, a short story collection by Palestinian author Samira Azzam. \n\nThis online event is open and free to the public. Registration is required. Donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \nRSVP here to participate URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/tmr-book-club-discusses-bothayna-al-essas-the-book-censors-library-translated-by-sawad-hussain-ranya-abdelrahman/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:TMR Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Zoom-wide-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Markaz Review":MAILTO:info@themarkaz.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR