March 5, 7:00 - 9:00 PM EST - Zoom & in person at Columbia Univ (CUID card holders only for in person attendance)

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature

The Center for Palestine Studies, in collaboration with the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, will be hosting Refqa Abu-Remaileh, a scholar of Palestinian literature, to talk about her digital project, Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature.

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature digitally retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20th century, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America. Sitting at the intersection of literary history, periodical studies, and digital humanities, Country of Words creates a digitally networked and multilocational literary history—a literary atlas enhanced. The virtual realm acts as the meeting place for the data and narrative fragments of this literature-in-motion, bringing together porous, interrupted, disconnected, and discontinuous fragments into an elastic, interconnected, and entangled literary history.

Refqa Abu-Remaileh is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As Principal Investigator, she led the European Research Council project PalREAD (2018–2023). She is author of Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford University Press, 2023) and creator of the Arabic-language podcast Balad min Kalam: Conversations on Palestinian Literature, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

You can explore the Country of Words here.

To register for the event on March 5, click here.

EVENT ACCESS + REGISTRATION
In-person attendance is open to CUID holders.

Remote attendance is available via Zoom.