Please join us for a lecture and discussion as Dr Anna Bernard (KCL) will deliver the first ECLS lecture on Palestinian Literature:

Dr Anna Bernard (King’s College London)

‘Poetry and Palestine Solidarity, 1970-present’

ECLS Student Hub - FAB 5.49

29 January 2025 17:00-18:00

Her research focuses on the literature and culture of anti-colonial struggles that have persisted after the formal end of European imperialism. She is the author of Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/PalestineLink opens in a new window (Liverpool UP, 2013, available open-access) and Decolonizing LiteratureLink opens in a new window (Polity Press, 2023).

Advance Reading (not required):

• Tawfiq Zayyad, ‘The Impossible’ (‘Al-mustaḥīl’, 1966), at https://www.tawfiqzayyad.org/post/the-impossibleLink opens in a new window
• Mahmoud Darwish, ‘The Earth is Closing on Us’ (‘Taḍīqu binā al-arḍ’, 1984), at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-earth-is-closing-on-us/Link opens in a new window
• Rafeef Ziadah, ‘Three Generations’ (2020), video available at http://www.rafeefziadah.net/js_videos/rafeef-ziadah-three-generations/Link opens in a new window (lyrics hereLink opens in a new window, English at the bottom)