To mark the re-publication of Edward W. Said’s The Question of Palestine, this landmark event will gather eight key authors to reflect on Said’s legacy, the enduring legacy of his work and its role in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
Saree Makdisi, Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Jehad Abusalim, Avi Shlaim, Ahdaf Soueif, Jacqueline Rose and Max Porter will consider what the Question of Palestine has become today and the painful contradiction that Said himself would observe: that Palestinian gains in international moral and cultural standing since the book’s publication have done nothing to prevent the continuous losses of land and life; that the establishment of Palestinian histories and narratives in the broader public imagination has led not to equality – but to dehumanization and death on a scale previously unimaginable.
An urgent, unique, unmissable event.
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Image: Edward W. Said in Palestine, 1992, courtesy of the Said family
