Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA

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

“An Evening with Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha” with
Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza

Discussant: Annette Damayanti Lienau, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

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".

For more information on Mosab Abu Toha, please visit Mosab Abu Toha - Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau

Co-sponsor: Harvard Department of Comparative Literature

Link: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/evening-palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha