Join us on August 22 at 6:30pm for a reading of selected Palestinian poetry led by writer, translator and cultural producer Rana Issa. In the selection, Issa foregrounds poets living and working in Palestine, moving across the contexts of the 1940s and the time of the nakba to the 1970s and those writing in Gaza today.
The event is free and open to the public.
The reading will take place in English.
This poetry reading coincides with the exhibition Break, Take, Erase, Tally by Palestinian artist Jumana Manna, on view at Kunsthall Stavanger through August 25.
Rana Issa is a writer, translator and cultural producer focusing on literary and contemporary artistic practices entangled with Arabic cultural history. She works at the intersection between public humanities, activist engagements, and academic curiosity. Rana’s work has appeared in leading journals, platforms and presses, and she has collaborations with international artists from the region in the fields of film, performance arts, visual arts and sculpture. Her book The Modern Arabic Bible was published this year from Edinburgh University Press.