Every year, around 29 November, the United Nations commemorates the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, a date chosen to coincide with the adoption by the UN General Assembly of Resolution 181, later known as the "Partition Resolution", which provided for the creation of a "Jewish State" and an "Arab State" in Palestine, with Jerusalem as its centre. corpus separatum subject to a special international regime.
On the occasion of this commemoration, Tres Culturas makes available to its audience the video of the presentation of My kingdom is of this world (Mamlakati min hada al-alam) by Murid Barguti, a major figure in contemporary Palestinian literature, in conversation with translator and editor Luis Miguel Cañada.
The Fundación Tres Culturas, in collaboration with Casa Árabe, released this video on 5 October.
This anthology published by 'Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo' and selected with the author's collaboration, brings together more than fifty poems published between 1980 and 2018, offering an almost complete overview of his production. "A work that aspires to create beauty with the word, that seeks to accompany, console, denounce, protest; to cry out and bear witness to love for things great and small, often unnoticed, unfolding the secrets of the earth" (from the presentation by Luis Miguel Cañada).
Co-organised by: Casa Árabe
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