Speakers: Nader Jalal, Nadi Abusaada, Abdullah Abu Al-Saud

Monday, May 11, 17:00–18:30
Location: the Palestinian Museum and via Zoom
Language: Arabic

This discussion marks the seventy-eighth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, not as a remembrance of a historical event that has passed, but as an ongoing colonial structure that continues to reproduce itself politically, culturally, and spatially. In the Palestinian context, the Nakba cannot be reduced to a closed founding moment or to an event that demarcates a before and after. Rather, it is understood as a continuous process of dispossession, the restructuring of geography, the erasure of memory, and the reorganisation of everyday life from the river to the sea and beyond.

The discussion also seeks to approach Palestine in the moment preceding the Nakba: its cities, cinemas, theatres, music, and the architectural and artistic life that was taking shape at the time, along with the questions these formations carried around modernity, the city, identity, and the public sphere.

^{*Image: Guidebook cover, First Arab Exhibition, Jerusalem, 1933. From looted Palestinian materials held in Zionist archives.}