Chair: Jumana Bayeh

Susan Abulhawa, Micaela Sahhar and Saree Makdisi together with Jumana Bayeh explore the power of literature to reimagine what has been distorted in the real world. Nowhere is this distortion more apparent than in relation to Palestine. Can literature reveal what has been suppressed to narrate the history of dispossession endured by generations of Palestinians? More radically, can literature envision and narrate an alternative world that does not yet exist?

Event details: Tue 07 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage