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*The following two very important events on Palestine will be happening this week. Please try to make it and send the details out to your friends and colleagues!* *POETRY READING AND CONVERSATION ON REVOLUTION AND LITERATURE WITH RENOWNED PALESTINIAN POETS MOURID AL-BARGHOUTI AND TAMIM AL-BARGHOUTI* Thursday, April 28 | 6:30 pm Tishman Auditorium, New York University 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003 Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/225646067795795/ <http://al-awdany.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e23c03184488eae326175015&id=4391952023&e=36dfd813e0> Hosted by NY4Palestine BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE: *http://al-awdany.org/2016/04/tickets-now-available-nyc-poetry-reading-and-discussion-with-mourid-and-tamim-al-barghouti/ <http://al-awdany.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e23c03184488eae326175015&id=368275de1d&e=36dfd813e0>* *$10 General Admission + $5 Youth and Students + $50 Special VIP Supporter | Or pay what you can! No one turned away because of limited funds* We are honored to host an evening of open discussion on the role of literature in revolution including poetry readings by the celebrated poet of the revolution,Tamim Al-Barghouti and his renowned novelist and poet father, Mourid Al-Barghouti. The evening will examine the role of literature in challenging power structures, creating alternative realities, and fueling the aspirations of revolutionary moments – and feature a very special joint poetry reading by this father-son poetic duo! Mourid Al-Barghouti is a Palestinian author and poet, winner of the 2000 Palestine Award for Poetry whose work was described by Edward Said as “one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement.” His poems are published in Arabic and international literary magazines, and his literary works include I Was Born There, I Was Born Here; I Saw Ramallah; A Small Sun, andMidnight and Other Poems. Tamim Al-Barghouti is an Arab poet and political analyst, born to Mourid Al-Barghouti and Egyptian novelist and academic Radwa Ashour. Tamim Al-Barghouti’s poem “In Jerusalem” has become one of the most widely taught and recited in Palestine and throughout the region; thus he was dubbed “the poet of Jerusalem.” During the Egyptian revolution of 2011, Tamim’s poems were sung on the streets and in Tahrir Square to fuel revolutionary fervor. ----------------------------------- *IN OUR OWN WORDS: VOICES FROM THE NAKBA* Date: 5/2 Time: 6:00PM Location: NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall Rm. 210, 40 Washington Square South, New York NY Description: On May 14, 1948, 18-year-old Mariam Fathallah, her family, and the rest of the Palestinian town of Al-Zeeb were forced out of their homes and into Lebanon. By the end of the year, their 4,000 year-old community was leveled and half of all Palestinians in Palestine had been killed or expelled. Palestinians know this event as the Nakba ("the catastrophe"). Mariam, now 86 years old and respectfully known as Umm Akram, has spent the last 68 years in crowded, makeshift refugee camps, where she has raised three generations of children who are waiting to return to their homes in Palestine. She has lived through 5 Israeli invasions of Lebanon and the 1976 Tel Al-Zaatar camp massacre which killed 2,000 refugees. Amena El-Ashkar, 23, is the granddaughter and great granddaughter of Nakba survivors and has known no home other than a refugee camp. Umm Akram and Amena are among six million Palestinians not living in Palestine. They are citizens of no country. Come hear their story. https://www.facebook.com/events/1694328587503764 Middle Eastern food will be served! Hosted by NY4Palestine Flyer <https://www.dropbox.com/s/2s0nvi0wfjb7ps7/Nakba%20Tour%20and%20Rally%20Single%20Flyer%20Double-Sided.pdf?dl=0> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
