Ihab Saloul

What characterises the voices of writers in resistance, writers in exile, and specifically: Palestinian writers? In this lecture, Ihab Saloul, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, will give us a bird’s-eye view of Palestinian literature, its relationship with resistance, and the censorship that the literature faces. Saloul will mainly zoom in on the work of Ghassan Kanafani – a pioneer of Palestinian resistance literature (his novel Men in the Sun (1963), who was killed by Mossad in 1972, and the work of Mahmoud Darwish, who is considered to be the greatest Palestinian poet of all time, and is famous for his poem ‘Silence for Gaza’.

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Professor Ihab Saloul (1973) is de oprichter van de Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture aan de UvA. Zijn expertise ligt in de culturele vorming van identiteit, met een focus op verschillende expressies zoals literatuur, kunst en visuele cultuur. Dit betreft met name de vorming van een culturele identiteit van de Palestijnse diaspora.

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