Cycle #07: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
2 July – In Course (2026)
Ilan Pappe, a renowned history professor from Israel, author of this historical piece (2006) that presents in detail the crudity of the Nakba, describing both the political and human perspective, giving life to those Palestinian villages that are no longer there.
Cycle #06: Perfect Victims
5 October – 3 December (2025)
Mohammed El-Kurd, writer and poet from West Bank, author of this ‘manifesto’ (2025) about conditioned empathy and the denial of an ideal victim.
Cycle #05: The Wretched of the Earth
2 July – 3 September (2025)
Frantz Fanon, provides a (psycho)analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonisation of a person and of a people.
Cycle #04: Orientalism
11 April – 19 June (2025)
Edward Said, literary critic and professor from Palestine (Egypt and US), introduces his famous concept in this analysis (1978) of the influence that Western ideologists had in the creation of abstract and dehumanizing notions of being ‘oriental’, revisiting old and modern narratives to understand how knowledge and power are deeply connected in the creation of societies.
Cycle #03: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
(2025)
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what seems a turning point in the narrative of human history. Profound and moving, Hammad writes from within the moment, shedding light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognizing the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and a foremost writer of fiction in the world today.
Cycle #02: Gaza, an Inquest into its Martyrdom
Written by Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors, a jewish American political scientist, activist, and author specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.
Cycle #01: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
August – (2024)
Written by Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.
