Palestina

Round table discussion and debate with artists and activists from the Palestinian diaspora in Catalonia. Different voices will offer testimony and imaginaries of resistance to the current situation in Palestine. At the end of the talk we will project different pieces (image, audio, video, text) of different artists from the Palestinian diaspora sent for the occasion:

Amer Shomali, Bayan Abu Nahla, Bashar Alhroub, Brahim Jawabreh, Benji Boyadgian, Cristina Hadwa, Essa Grayeb, Firas Shehadeh, Hani Zurob, Jawad Al Malhi, John Halaka, Khaled Hourani, Mohammed Joha, Monther Jawabreh, Nabil Anani, Samia Halaby, Samira Badran, Shada Safadi, Sliman Mansour, Steve Sabella, Tayseer Barakat, Taysir Batniji i Vera Tamari.

The exhibition will remain in Santa Mònica until 20 December.

*In parallel, this activity will take place:

15h-18h. Open graphic, poetry and poster workshop (DIWO) + gastronomic gesture.
We open 'the fishbowl' of Les Mòniques, at street level, to meet in an open and relaxed space to create alliances with the Palestinian people and their diaspora. A warm-up before the round table Palestine to draw, write and share Palestinian poetry over tea. In collaboration with illustrator M. Muti, poet-activist Nadia Jabr and activist-cook Mohammad Alsharqawi.

Links of interest:

http://www.samirabadran.com/

https://www.palestina.cat/

By Contraimaginarios (Postpandémicos). 
Samira Badran, Mohammad Alsharqawi, Nour Torello and Mohamad Bitari

Activity promoted by Contraimaginarios (Postpandémicos)
In collaboration with Comisión por Palestina from Les Mòniques

-Palestinian Community in Catalonia. It is the association of Palestinians living in Catalonia and at the same time a meeting place with the rest of the Catalan citizenship. It is a secular, democratic, plural and participative association, committed to the defence of human rights and the right to self-determination of peoples.

- Nour Torello, Palestinian diaspora activist.

-Samira Badran (Libya, 1954) From a Palestinian artistic family, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cairo (1971-1976) and then continued her studies in painting and engraving at the Accademia Delle Belle Arti di Firenze (1978-1982). She currently lives in Martorelles, Catalonia.
Samira's work focuses mainly on her personal perceptions of the Palestinian context under Israeli colonial occupation. She explores concepts of collective memory, confinement, immobility, impediments and fragmentation of territory and body.

-Mohammad Alsharqawi. A Syrian-Palestinian refugee, he is a translator and anti-racist activist. He has shared his experience at conferences on immigration and asylum, highlighting the situation in the Arab world and in Palestine.

-Mohamad Bitari. Palestinian poet, translator, writer and journalist from Syria. Born in 1990 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Syria, where he lived until the age of 23. His family fled the city of Nazareth in 1948 (the year of the Nakba) and settled in Syria after the occupation of the new State of Israel in Palestine. He currently lives in Barcelona, is a member of the Committee of Persecuted Writers of the Pen Club Foundation in Catalonia, and works as a translator of Catalan and Spanish literature; he also teaches Arabic at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

-Nadia Jabr is a Palestinian poet and activist, Arabic teacher and translator.

-M. Muti is a Palestinian illustrator, based in Barcelona.