Palestinian Studies

Palestinian: Every Time They Erase Us, We Become Clearer | Ibrahim Nasrallah and Huda Fakhreddine

Ibrahim Nasrallah Lecture Poster

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

5:00-6:30 pm

Joukowsky Forum (155), Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer St.

This event is for Brown faculty, staff and students only. Brown ID required for entry.

New Directions in Palestinian Studies at Brown University is proud to host Palestinian novelist and poet, Ibrahim Nasrallah and Professor of Arabic Literature, Huda Fakhreddine, who will jointly deliver the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Lecture, “Palestinian: Every Time They Erase Us, We Become Clearer.”

Launching their forthcoming limited-edition chapbook, “Palestinian” (World Poetry Books), Nasrallah and Fakhreddine will present a bilingual poetry reading followed by a conversation in which they reflect on their collaboration and discuss poetry, translation, history, and writing in a time of genocide.

Hosted by Beshara Doumani, Mahmoud Darwish Professor in Palestinian Studies.

“Palestinian” can be purchased here. $10 from the sale of each copy ordered before October 1 will be donated to KinderUSA, the leading American Muslim organization focused on the health and well-being of Palestinian children.

Lectures

About the Speakers

Ibrahim Nasrallah is a poet and novelist; to date he has published 15 poetry collections and 25 novels, including 15 novels within the project “The Palestinian Tragicomedy” covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history. He has won several awards, including The Arabic Booker for his novel “The Second War of the Dog,” and the Jerusalem Prize for Culture. He succeeded in summiting Mount Kilimanjaro in a venture with two Palestinian amputee adolescents and wrote about this journey the novel “The Spirits of Kilimanjaro,” which was awarded the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels. He won the Katara Prize again for his novel “A Tank Under the Christmas Tree.” His work has been translated into many languages and has been published in more than 40 editions.

Huda Fakhreddine is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of “Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition” (Brill, 2015) and “The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice” (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of “The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry” (Routledge, 2023). Her book of creative non-fiction titled “Zaman s̩aghīr taḥt shams thāniya” (“A Brief Time Under a Different Sun”) was published by Dar al-Nahda, Beirut, in 2019. Her translations of Arabic poems have appeared in Banipal, World Literature Today, Nimrod, ArabLit Quarterly, Asymptote, and Middle Eastern Literatures, among many others. She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.