On 18 April 2024 the Institute of Human Rights, Democracy, Culture of Peace and Non Violence (DEMOSPAZ) organised at the Corrala Hall of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) a public performance of Collective Reading of Palestinian Poetry of Resistance titled “The Arc of Refaat and Hiba. ¡Let’s Stop the Genocide in Gaza!”.
Our aim was showing our solidarity towards the situation of the Palestinian people and expressing our condemnation of the genocide in Gaza, through the Palestinian poetic resistance to the colonial occupation, and the Palestinian voices reaching out and bringing us their experiences in the form of poetry. Moreover we wanted to add up ours to their voices, by reading collectively their poems in Spanish and Arabic.
The Palestinian Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Husni Abdel Wahed, and representatives of the culture, art, academy and civil society spheres joined us.
In a dedicated web page we published various materials from this performance to spread its message and create public awareness: https://demospaz.org/12839-2/?et_fb=1&PageSpeed=off
TEXTS OF THE POEMS:
You can read the texts of the poems recited during the performance in a Dossier developed by Maurizio Montipó Spagnoli, researcher at DEMOSPAZ:
- Poems of Palestinian resistance: https://ceipaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ReducidoMontipo-Spagnoli20240510RecopilacionElArcaDeRefaateHiba.pdf
- A dossier of Poems on and for Palestine by non Palestinan poets: https://demospaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Demospaz-20240527Compilacion-Poemas-por-Palestina.pdf
PODCAST OF THE POEMS’ PUBLIC READING:
Palestinian poems: https://www.ivoox.com/poemas-palestinos_bk_list_11000975_1.html
Poems for and on Palestine: https://www.ivoox.com/poemas-sobre-palestina_bk_list_11004758_1.html
Multilingual Reading of the poem “If I must die” by Refaat Alareer: https://www.ivoox.com/01-refaat-alareer-si-debo-morir-audios-mp3_rf_128536837_1.html
VIDEOS:
The video of the public Reading performance is available on the DEMOSPAZ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24W1XhkDSZg . We wish to thank Juan Alba Rico for his generous collaboration in its artistic assemblage and finalisation.
A further public reading performance based on the same dossier of Palestinian poetry by the Spanish branch of the Women International Leage for Peace and Freedom (Wilpf) ¡n https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6RlBgqKYsW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
MASS MEDIA:
- Reportage by the Palestinian public broadcasting company Pal TV (19 April 2024):
A Spanish language transcript of the reportage is available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e19TLdOBhF5Sbvc20KDqUe26gB90bA3O/view?usp=drive_link
- Reportage and audience interviews by Al Arabi TV (23 April 2024):
A Spanish language transcript of the reportage is available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDS6W5fXJ2soDVI-B4WsXY5eQYbhZrHJ/view?usp=drive_link
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