Oct 3 • Poets for Palestine – reading

Poets for Palestine is a collection of poems written between October 7 2023 and August 2024, by 4 young Palestinian poets. They are either still fighting for their life in Gaza or luckily evacuated before the Rafah border was shut down, and from Jenin, West Bank, where a severe military operation by the IOF has taken place recently, worsening the conditions of those territories.
All the donations will go directly to the writers of the poems and their family.

This event was facilitated by Stella Saccà, who is or was in touch with all of the Palestinian poets. 
Stella Saccà born in Rome, Italy, is based in New York City. She is an actress, director, playwright, screenwriter, and producer. She co-wrote,  co-produced and acted in the short movie L’Appuntamento (The Date), awarded with the Golden Globe in 2013, she directed and wrote the play Lions Don't Hug, produced in Brooklyn and Manhattan in 2020 and 2023, and she directed Mattia Torre's monologues reading for the Italian-American Playwright project at the Martin Segal Theatre in New York in December 2023. Stella is a member of the Jury for the New York Movie Awards and the Florence Film Awards.

Kindly RVSP

Poems
Ahmad Alshaer, 25 years old, from Rafah, he evacuated to Egypt. All his poems were written this last year after October 7th.

Ibrahim Barahma, 20 year old, an actor from Jenin, West Bank. His poems were written after October 7th.

Nour El Din, killed by Israel on November 28, 2023. His friend Ola Hammad chose the poem; she will receive the donations. She is still in Gaza, displaced in Khan Younis West

Naqaa Samour, 21, videomaker from Jenin (West Bank)

Readings by
Marianne Azar
Marianne is an essayist, poet, singer-songwriter and translator in no particular order, and has organized writing communities in different countries. She is pursuing a PhD in language neuroscience, studying the relation between meaning and grammar across languages, including Arabic. She hails from the Lebanese mountains.
Alia Elkattan
Andrew Riad

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 3
7PM
Limited capacity
Please reserve your spot