Time: October 30, 6:30pm, Where: MIT Building E25-111, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA

Evening with Poet Mosab Abu Toha

Sponsors: Palestine @ MIT, MIT Grads for Palestine, MIT Coalition for Palestine

Book sale: Copies of Forest of Noise (2024) poetry collection will be available for purchase.

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian from the Gaza Strip. His debut book of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) won the Palestine Book Award and an American Book Award. Abu Toha was able to escape the Gaza Genocide with his wife and their three young children after being tortured at the hands of the Israeli armed forces. Over the past year, he has chronicled his life and his family's journey in The New Yorker, New York Times and The Washington Post and has published poems and essays for The Nation, Literary Hub, Poetry Magazine, and Banipal. Copies of his latest poetry collection Forest of Noise (2024) will be available for purchase.

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