November 20th 2024 | The Royal Festival Hall, London
To mark Fitzcarraldo Editions' republication of Edward Said’s classic text "The Question of Palestine", we were honoured to bring together Jehad Abusalim (via video), Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Saree Makdisi, Max Porter, Jacqueline Rose, Wadie Said, Avi Shlaim and Ahdaf Soueif - hosted by Aimee Shaalan, at the Royal Festival Hall in London to speak to our current moment within the long history of the Palestinian struggle.
They consider what The Question of Palestine has become today, and the painful contradiction that Said himself would observe: that Palestinian gains in international moral and cultural standing since the book’s publication have done nothing to prevent the continuous losses of land and life; and that the establishment of Palestinian histories and narratives in the broader public imagination has led not to equality, but to dehumanisation and death on a scale previously unimaginable.
0:00 - Welcome from Aimee Shalan
8:17 - Short video of Edward Said
16:53 - Introducing Saree Makdisi
18:18 - Saree Makdisi
30:00 - Introducing Jehad Abusalim
30:50 - Jehad Abusalim's recorded video
38:57- Introducing Jacqueline Rose
39:50 - Jacqueline Rose
52:33 - Introducing Budour Hassan
33:15 - Budour Hassan
1:06:55 - Introducing Max Porter
1:07:36 - Max Porter
1:28:25 - Introducing Avi Shlaim
1:29:35 - Avi Shlaim
1:43:53 - Introducing Wadie Said and Tamim Barghouti
1:44:53 - Wadie Said
1:50:48 - Tamim Barghouti
2:00:12 - Wadie Said and Tamim Barghouti and Ghassan Abu-Sittah's statement
2:00:12 - An excerpt from Mourid Barghouti's poem, Midnight
2:08:08 - Introducing Ahdaf Soueif
2:09:07 - Ahdaf Soueif
2:25:03 - Closing words from Aimee Shalan