Speakers: Novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, Anton Shalhat,
Adel Manna, PhD, Mahmoud Yazbek, PhD,
guest curator Inass Yassin, and Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, PhD.

Wednesday, September 22 | 16:00 - 20:30  
Location: the Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic
Programme (in Arabic) here
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81655480440 


This symposium focuses on the construction of consciousness and the shaping of the Palestinian imaginary with regards to the Palestinian coast on the historical, geographical, and cultural levels. The discussion takes its point of departure from the concepts of the Palestinian Museum’s exhibition A People by the Sea: Narratives from the Palestinian Coast. The Exhibition tackles the history of the Palestinian coast starting from the period of Daher Al-Omar until the Nakba.

Biographies
Adel Manna
Palestinian historian specialized in the history of Palestine in the Ottoman era, and researcher in Israeli studies focusing on Palestinians who remained after the Nakba. He has held the position of professor of history for several decades at Palestinian and Israeli universities, including: Birzeit University and The Hebrew University. He published three books with the Institute of Palestine Studies on the District of Jerusalem, and on Palestine, in general, during the Ottoman era.  Dr Manna was a historical advisor to the new Palestinian Museum exhibition A People by the Sea.

Ibrahim Nasrallah
Palestinian-Jordanian novelist and writer. He published several novels, that span 250 years of Palestine's history. His works have been translated into English, Italian and Danish. He won the Katara Prize, for a second time, in recognition of his novel A Military Tank Under the Christmas Tree.

Anton Shalhat
a researcher in Israeli affairs, translator, and published author of literary criticism. He is the director of the Israeli Scene Department at the Madar Research Center.

Inass Yassin
artist and curator. Her multi-media art practice addresses urban and social transformations in Palestine since the late 1980s. She was the director of the Birzeit University Museum between 2010-2017. She received an MFA from Maine College of Art in the US, and an MA from the University of Southampton in the UK.

Mahmoud Yazbek
Palestinian historian and researcher. He is a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa. He specializes in the history of the Middle East and the social and political history of Palestinians, and the Palestinian society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr Yazbek was a historical advisor to the new Palestinian Museum exhibition A People by the Sea.