Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif was swimming with his family when he heard the first bombs on October 7, 2023. For three months, he kept a diary of what he experienced in Gaza: the drones, the bombings, the horrors. Months later, after he managed to flee the country, he discovered that his library had also been destroyed. Not only had his carefully preserved books been lost, but also the manuscripts of his very first stories, which he wrote from prison at the age of nineteen. “I still remember the plots of those stories. But the stories themselves, like the lives of 50,000 Gazans, have been erased in this war.”
On this evening, Naeeda Aurangzeb will talk with Atef Abu Saif about writing as a form of resistance and his motivation to continue telling the stories of Gazans. Writer Rashid Novaire will provide an introduction to Abu Saif’s work.
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datum: vrijdag 13 juni
aanvang: 13:00 uur
plaats: de Nieuwe Liefde, Da costakade 102, 1053 WP, Amsterdam
