You Will Not Kill Our Imagination with Saeed Teebi

Hosted by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

Saeed Teebi returns to the Festival stage with You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times . What does it mean to be of the Palestinian diaspora in such a moment? What does it mean to be of a people who have sustained such a large-scale assault not only on their homeland, but their entire identity? What is the role of art, of language—of imagination—in asserting one’s identity, when that very assertion is read as an act of subversion?

This is at once a memoir of one family’s displacement, a scathing indictment of global complicity in the face of brutality, and a profound rumination on art and imagination as a means of defiance. It is an astonishing work of resistance by a major intellect, and it is both urgent and timeless.