Please join us for the UK book launch of Mai Serhan's I Can Imagine It For Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir.

Mai will be in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum to discuss her epic, tricontinental story of a family's fate from the frontlines of the Nakba to a contemporary exile scattered as far as China. 

I Can Imagine it For us will be the February pick for the PalFest Bookshelf - so do subscribe here for the best new books on Palestine, straight to your door.

Mai Serhan is a Palestinian writer who grew up in Egypt. She is the author of CAIRO: the undelivered letters (Diwan Publishing, 2025), winner of the 2022 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Award, and I Have Never Been to the Place Where I am From, But I Will Imagine It For U, a finalist for the 2022 Narratively Memoir Prize. She holds an MSt in creative writing from Oxford University, and has studied at NYU and AUC. She lives in Cairo.

Hazem Jamjoum is a cultural historian, archivist and educator based in London. He is the lead editor at the recently established publishing house Safarjal Press. His translation of Ghassan Kanafani’s The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine was published by 1804 Books and won the 2024 Palestine Book Award. His translation of Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s novel No One Knows Their Blood Type was published by the CSU Poetry Center in 2024. His translation of Gawad Elakkad’s poetry collection Leading Songbirds from the Slaughter (edited by lisa minerva luxx) is forthcoming from Safarjal Press.

Doors open at 5.30pm; book launch starts at 6pm and finishes at 7.30pm.