To mark the re-publication of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine, this landmark event on November 20 gathers eight key authors to reflect on the enduring legacy of Said’s work and its role in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

Saree Makdisi, Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Jehad Abusalim, Avi Shlaim, Ahdaf Soueif, Jacqueline Rose and Max Porter will 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.

20 November, 7:30pm
Royal Festival Hall, London

Can’t make the event? Preorder your copy of the book here.

New Video: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maaza Mengiste, and Eve Ewing in Palestine

In May 2023, we held the 12th edition of the Palestine Festival of Literature in cities across occupied Palestine. Here, three authors – Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maaza Mengiste, and Eve Ewing – reflect on what they saw.

All interviews were filmed in Palestine in May 2023.

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