Palestine Talks Spring 2025
The Parallel Geographies of Palestinian Literary History
Prof Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Refqa Abu-Remaileh is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As Principal Investigator, she led the European Research Council project PalREAD (2018–2023). She is author of Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford University Press, 2023) and creator of the Arabic-language podcast Balad min Kalam: Conversations on Palestinian Literature available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20thcentury, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America. Sitting at the intersection of literary history, periodical studies, and digital humanities, Country of Words creates a digitally networked and multilocational literary history—a literary atlas enhanced. The virtual realm acts as the meeting place for the data and narrative fragments of this literature-in-motion, bringing together porous, interrupted, disconnected, and discontinuous fragments into an elastic, interconnected, and entangled literary history.
Date: 24/04/2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium G, Technicum blok 2, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent
Contact: Islam.Dayeh@UGent.be; Lisa.Franke@UGent.be