NCLA: Palestine Futures 2024
Palestine Futures | Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts | Newcastle University
Palestine Futures: Danah Abdulla, Zena Agha, Mahdi Sabbagh + Larissa Sansour. Preti Taneja hosts a panel with four Palestinian Creatives. Malaysia | Singapore
Thursday 23rd of May 2024 from 18:30 – 20:00Culture Laboratory, Newcastle University.
Sarona Abuaker.
Four leading Palestinian creatives will join us for a discussion on Palestine's past, present and future. We will also focus on the possible futures that we can imagine through their important and radical work. We will be sharing readings, short movies, landscape plans and blueprints as well as design briefs. This is to explore the role these fields have in shaping Palestine under occupation.
Danah Abdulla, a designer and educator who is also a researcher and educator, is interested in narratives that push the boundaries of design. She is a Reader of Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories and Theories at the Decolonising the Arts Institute, University of the Arts in London. Designerly Ways of Knowing, A Working Inventory of What a Designer should Know (Onomatopee 2022) is her first book. Bloomsbury will publish her second book, Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education within the Arab Region in 2024.
Zena Agha, a Palestinian and Iraqi poet, writer, researcher and multi-disciplinary art from London, is an award-winning writer, researcher. Her debut poetry collection, Objects from May and April (Hajar Press 2022), has been a finalist in the Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize, and the Philip Levine Poetry Prize. She is a resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., and is pursuing a PhD funded by ESRC at Newcastle University.
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