MEMORY FOR DENIAL

"in order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent" The poem "Lines Without a Home", read by Ines Gobetti, is part of the collection "Il loro grido è la mia voce. Poesie da Gaza", Fazi Editore 2025. Marwan Makhoul was born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother in 1979 in the village of Boquai'a in th...

You can’t see it but I stared too long at the hills my eyes have bruised. It’s on the inside, beneath the skin, in the spot closest to what they call the soul. The hills are otherworldly and distant, particularly those between Jericho and Amman— from the taxi, they appear as a procession of souls, or like snipers contemplating the desert road. Everything is in its place, like a mathematical equati...

Sabrina Amico legge il frammento 342 dal libro "Apeirogon" di Colum McCann, che racconta la preparazione della performance funambolica di Philippe Petit nella Valle dell'Hinnom. Grazie Sabrina!

A collective reading from Tasneem Shatat's book "Archive Out of Coverage" at Spore Initiatives, Berlin, during the Gaza Biennale. Thanks you all for your voices, Thank you Spore, and thank you, Tasneem, for this incredibly powerful project!

ITINERANT HISTORIES OF SOLIDARITY - Part 1 Spore Initiative, November 25, 2025 A Panel discussion during the opening week of the Gaza Biennale - Berlin Pavilion at Spore Initiative examining the Biennale as a global network of solidarity born in Gaza and expanding across the world.  The Gaza Biennale has emerged as a self-organized web of relations dedicated to the amplifying Palestinian voices wh...

Palestinian Berlin-based artist YA Z AN travels around his hometown of Ramallah where he encounters sounds that comfort and remind him of home. He uses binaural technology to collect audio pieces from the verdant Palestinian landscape and sculpts them with sounds from everyday life to create a complete surround sound experience. Setting off with a ‘oud player singing folklore music during a post-w...

Zines from Gaza is an initiative of Coastal Lines Press - a project that gathered over 200 people to layout, design, illustrate and publish the texts of Gazan writers and artists in the form of zines. During the Gaza Biennale they had a presentation and a zine-making workshop. The following recordings are by the authors of their own texts and they are installed at Casino for Social Medicine (Sonne...

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present the piece "Al-Shadidah", which is part of Ola Al Shrif's statue of a slingshot. The sound is incorporated in the augmented reality statue to be found in Hermannplatz, Berlin. This work has been developed in collaboration with Berlin-based collective Alternative Monument for Germany who designed the sound piece alongside an augmented reality...

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Siraj Shawa's "Nazeh: When Displacement Learns to Sway" Siraj Shawa is an electronic music producer and beat box artist, born in Gaza in 1993. GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025 Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Init...

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present six poems by Palestinian artist Jehad Jarbou (in Arabic). Sky and Fingers When you begin to wrap a piece of thread around your fingers, It reveals the direction of the wind. Where are you? Words begin to soar with the breeze, rising into the sky. You speak to those who cannot hear, Who cannot read, Who cannot see. You are speaking to yoursel...

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Aya Juha's "Testimony" (in Arabic and English). In this recording the artist recounts the way Israeli's tanks surrounded their home and fired shells at their house, and some of her relatives were martyred. Aya Juha (b. in 1991, Gaza, displaced in North Gaza) Aya Juha’s work has long sought to find some meaning from the relentless suffering o...

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present a short extract of the sound of Khaled Hussein's installation "I Miss You Deeply". The sculptures at the center of his installation speak to Palestinian "sumud" (steadfastness) in the face of genocide. The artist creates his sculptures with clay made from mud - an impermanent material also used for making stoves and fire pits. His process is...

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Hala Eid Alnaji's "Return" (in English and Arabic). In this powerful recording, the artist recounts her family’s history of displacement tracing back the thread of loss from her exile through Gaza and to the Nakba."Return" is part of the installation "Nazeh’s Lexicon: The Language of Displacement". Hala Eid Alnaji (b. in 1988 in Gaza, Displa...

Maurizia Balmelli reads an extract from her Italian translation of Isabella Hammad's novel Enter Ghost in which a UK-Palestinian theatre actress makes a journey to her homeland and becomes involved in an attempt to stage an Arabic-language production of "Hamlet" in the West-Bank.  Thank you so much Maurizia! Free, free Palestine! ABOUT THE BOOK https://www.marsilioeditori.it/libri/scheda-libro/297...

FID Marseille, Sunday July 13th 2025 AGORA : "Palestine as a starting point" What imaginaries, what works, what practices could lead us to produce traces of singularities and force history to change its course? Open discussion among filmmakers and artists (including Narimane Mari, Fatma Chérif, Ghassan Salhab, Carolina Adriazola, José Luis Sepúlveda, Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, Catherine Libe...

In this episode we present the soundtrack of Edward Said's 1983 film project Shadow of the West (directed by Geoff Dunlop), in which he draws connections between the oppression and violent displacement of Palestinians and the colonialist West's orientalist dream of controlling the Arab world.  A full transcript, with English translations of interviews in Arabic, can be downloaded here :

When the Israeli army invaded Palestine in April 2002, many of the principal towns, including Ramallah, were held under seige. Lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh’s diary of the time, published as When the Bulbul Stopped Singing , vividly portrays the feelings of terror and powerlessness he and others experienced during this violent incursion into their homeland. In this extract from th...

Chiara Guidi interpreta per firefly frequencies il testo di Darwish scritto in memoria di Edward Said. Cofondatrice della Compagnia SOCIETAS, Chiara Guidi sviluppa una personale ricerca sulla voce come chiave drammaturgica nel dischiudere suono e senso di un testo. Grazie infinite, Chiara! Tratto da Mahmud Darwish, "Come fiori di mandorlo o più lontano", trad. it. di Chirine Haidar, Epoché, Mila...

La questione palestinese è una delle lotte politiche a cui Deleuze si dedicò con maggior ardore. L’impegno del filosofo francese è rappresentato principalmente da quattro interventi raccolti in "Due regimi di folli": "I seccatori" (1978), "Gli indiani di Palestina" (1982), "Grandezza di Yasser Arafat" (1983), "Le pietre" (1984).  Chiara Guidi, cofondatrice della compagnia teatrale Socìetas Raffael...

Palestinian poet Hind Jouda reads her poem A poet in time of war / شاعرة في زمن الحرب: Thank you so much Hind! English translation (by by Ahmed M. Saleh) What does it mean to be a poet in times of war? It means apologizing extensively apologizing  to the burnt trees to the nestless birds to the crushed homes to the long cracks along the streets to the pale-faced children before and after death to...

Rafeef Ziadah recites the poem "If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer who was killed in an airstrike by the Israeli military December 6, 2023, along with his brother, his brother's son, his sister and her three children. This poem written to his daughter in 2011 was published five weeks before his murder.  Collective project SOME STRINGS Filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed SOME STR...

Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson read an extract from the second part of Adania Shibli's novel "Minor Detail", a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory that cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment. This reading was originally...

A mix by our comrades from Radio Tropiezo / Crater Invertido from Mexico City, originally created for Radio Al-Hara’s 24 Hours Palestine broadcast. Thank you so much Radio Tropiezo! RADIO TROPIEZO https://radiotropiezo.org/ RADIO AL-HARA https://www.radioalhara.net/ 24 HOURS PALESTINE https://soundcloud.com/24hrs-palestine

Asmaa Azaizeh is a Palestinian poet and interdisciplinary artist . She was born in 1985 in the village of Daburieh. For firefly frequencies artist Caterina Giansiracusa reads the Italian translation of her poem "The Eye of the Blackbird". Thank you Caterina! Here is the original version in Arabic: عين الشحرور   بعد قليل سيسقط قرص حياتي في حضني   لن يحدث الكثير بعد ذلك   الّذين تمنّيتُ لقاءهم ماتوا...

JEAN GENET QUATRE HEURES À CHATILA by Pharoah Chromium UNE PHOTOGRAPHIE A DEUX DIMENSIONS… 06:07 SAINT GENET À CHATILA 04:42 This podcast comes from a 7” vinyl release, a spoken word record with a sonic background. The two tracks are also a continuation of what was initially started with a previous release of Pharoah Chromium named "Gaza: an electro-acoustic collage that tried to capture the inten...