An Evening with Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha

The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series and the Harvard Woodberry Poetry Room presents a poetry reading and discussion with

Mosab Abu Toha
Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza

Discussion facilitator: Annette Damayanti Lienau, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

For more information on Mosab Abu Toha, please visit https://www.prhspeakers.com.

Please note: seating is first-come, first-served.

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, "Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear", was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for "The New Yorker".

Photo credit: Mohamed Mahdy

Co-sponsor: Harvard Department of Comparative Literature
Contact: Liz Flanagan