SAVE THE DATE

Join us for a presentation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mosab Abu Toha, followed by a conversation between Abu Toha and prize-winning writer and translator, Yasmine Seale. Introductory remarks by Nadia Abu El-Haj, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Palestine Studies. 

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) and Forest of Noise (2024) will be available for purchase.

This event will be open to CUID holders and the public. Registration is required. 

SPEAKER

Toha (c) Mohamed Mahdy

MOSAB ABU TOHA is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. His second collection, Forest of Noise, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker. 

For more information on Mosab Abu Toha, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.

DISCUSSANT

Portrait by Marie d'Origny

YASMINE SEALE is a poet and translator. Her translations from the Arabic include The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021) and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books, 2022). She is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia.  

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

NADIA ABU EL-HAJ is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University.