From the Archives at the Mosaic Rooms

In 'Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me', Ghassan Zaqtan’s tenth poetry collection, translator Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers new works by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time.

Ghassan Zaqtan was born in 1954 near Bethlehem and lives in Ramallah. He has worked with the Palestinian resistance movement and was editor of Bayader, the literary magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. He is efitor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry journal Al-Shoua’ra and is co-founder and director of the House of Poetry in Ramallah.

Fadi Joudah is a practicing physician of internal medicine and an award-winning poet and translator. Among his translations are two poetry collections by Mahmoud Darwish, 'The Butterfly’s Burden' and 'If I Were Another', for which he won the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award. He was also the winner of the 2008 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for 'The Butterfly’s Burden'.

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These living histories and testimonies from first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are shared by contributors the book Voices of the Nakba.

This conversation took place as part of the Stateless Heritage exhibition by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti at the Mosaic Rooms in London, 23 November 2021.

Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine is released by Pluto Press.

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Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

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Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

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Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

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The painter and printmaker Mohammad Omar Khalil speaks with writer Maya Jaggi about why he works only in black and white, making work as an embodied process, and surviving as a working artist in New York.

In 2020 the Mosaic Rooms hosted ‘Homeland Under My Nails’, an exhibition of Khalil’s prints from 1964 to now. It explores the experimentation and international sensibility of the artist, who trained in Sudan and Italy, and has lived in New York and Asilah since the early 1970s. Curated by Abed AlKadiri, the exhibition showed works from throughout Khalil’s career, some displayed for the first time.

“In black, you meditate more than in colour. Colour is fascinating, attractive, I think of it as superficial. Black and white draws you in.”

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Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

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Abdellatif Laâbi and translator André Naffis-Sahely read from Laâbi’s novel The Bottom of the Jar in its first English translation, and Laâbi reads a list of advice, wisdoms and aspirations for new writers.

The Bottom of the Jar recreates Laâbi’s childhood city of Fez, Morocco, through Nanoussa, his semi-fictional kindred spirit. It holds the energy of the final days of the French occupation, and the path to liberation.

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

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Human rights lawyer Raji Sourani delivers a powerful Edward W. Said London Lecture, where he confronts the reality of the ongoing Gaza genocide and Israel's assault on international law and Palestinians. Sourani fled Gaza in late 2023 when his home was bombed, and now lives with his family in Cairo. Sourani is a member of the South African delegation on the genocide case against Israel before the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

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