Speakers 2023

Mosab Abu-Toha

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza. Abu Toha is the author of Things You […]

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Nadia Saah

Nadia Saah founded and directs Project48, a cross-platform initiative to advance awareness of the Palestinian Nakba. She has served as a business […]

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Nariman Youssef

Nariman Youssef is a Cairo-born literary translator and translation consultant based in London. Her literary translations include Mo(a)t: Stories from Arabic (UEAP, […]

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Nasreen Abd Elal

Nasreen Abd Elal is a rising senior at Columbia University, completing her B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies. She works on the fragmentation […]

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Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New […]

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Nur Masalha

Professor Nur Masalha is a Palestinian academic and historian and former Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary’s […]

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Olivia Elias

Poet of the Palestinian diaspora, born in Haifa in 1944, Olivia Elias writes in French. She lived until she was 16 years […]

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Rachel Holmes

Rachel Holmes is the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel (2020), Eleanor Marx: A Life, (2014) serialized on BBC Radio 4 […]

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Reem Assil

Reem Assil is a Palestinian-Syrian chef based in Oakland, CA and owner of Reem’s California, a nationally acclaimed restaurant in Oakland and […]

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Yusuf Aljamal

Yusuf Aljamal is a journalist and the author and translator of several books. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from […]

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