Casa Árabe and the Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo publishing firm will be presenting an anthology of poems written in recent months by thirty young Palestinian poets, including both women and men, as the killing in the Gaza Strip and the violent expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank continue. The event will feature four of these poets and the work’s translator, Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán.

 This anthology brings together poems written by fifteen women and fifteen men, most of them youths and quite young poets, often published on social media or simply submitted as voice messages, as they faced a campaign of extermination and collective punishment by Israel, of unprecedented proportions. 
“How painful it is to compile an anthology like this. Palestine, Gaza in a brutal manner and before the helpless gaze of half the world, the West Bank, surreptitiously through the relentless expansion of the settlers, continues to suffer a campaign of eradication. It is relentless aggression that has been going on for more than 75 years. The campaign of physical and cultural extermination undertaken in a Zionist project carried out with precise brutality has entered a “final solution” stage that we thought had been left behind in the annals of the last century.” From the introduction by Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán.

Taking part in the event are poets Mona Musaddar, Doha Al Kahlut, Fatena al Ghorra and Mohamed Wadah Abujami, reciting a selection of poems, along with Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán. Reading in Spanish will be Irene Maquieira, Covadonga Murias, José F. Ramos and Diego Vara. The event will be introduced by Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s Culture Coordinator.
The event is the result of cooperation between the Autonomous University of Madrid, Amnesty International-Madrid, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CEARC) and the Spanish Society of Arabic Language Teachers (SEDLA).
The event is available on our YouTube channel.  

Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/gaza-poems-to-fight-genocide