Poetry Reading: “My Country: Distant as My Heart from Me”

 

Mourid Barghouti and Tamim Albarghouti read their poetry in a mesmerising jugalbandhi

 

 

 

From 16:00 to 17:30

 

“Stuck in Historical Amber?”

 

Susan Abulhawa and Sharif Elmusa speak about what it means to be “out of time, out of place”, to be never at home, and much else besides

 

 

 

A free-wheeling conversation with well-known book critic, Sunil Sethi

 

 

 

At 18:30

 

“Palestine: Nothing Makes Sense, Why Should I?”

 

Suad Amiry performs the tragi-comedy of her situation as a Palestinian under Occupation in the West Bank

 

 

 

Launch of the book My Damascus

 

Suad Amiry takes the reader by the hand and walks her through the city of her childhood, interleaving Damascus in history from the 1860s to the 2000s, with family history, of roughly the same period.  A tour de force

 

 

 

Ahdaf Soueif is the mistress of ceremonies




Organised in collaboration with Women Unlimited