Palestine: Bringing down the curtain on apartheid
Palestinians are shattering our walls of fear every day. We are fighting for our rights and dignity every day. What we need from you is not just some more courage, but an eruption of meaningful solidarity that ends all complicity in Israel’s regime of oppression and apartheid.
With these words Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, introduces an online conversation taking place on Saturday May 7 at 2pm between him and Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif, founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature – PalFest.
Sign up here for the seventh Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture – Palestine: Bringing down the curtain on apartheid. It will be a dialogue between two speakers at the cutting edge of the fight for the rights of the Palestinian people. Publicity for the event appears below.
Tickets cost £5 each. Proceeds go Artists for Palestine UK.
Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture 2022 – online at 2pm Saturday May 8
Corin was a founder of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission and Peace and Progress – A Party for Human Rights. He was tireless in his opposition to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the so-called ‘War on Terror’ and his work was recognised both at home and abroad. He was also a wholehearted supporter of the Palestinian right to self-determination and a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). Corin understood that opposition to the ‘War on Terror’ and support for the Palestinian struggle were indivisible. Writing in a Manifesto for Peace & Progress he stated that the impending invasion of Iraq was firstly a catastrophe for the children of Iraq and neighbouring countries and “Second, for the people of Palestine, for whom all prospect of an end to Israeli occupation will be postponed indefinitely”.
Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. He is co-recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia university, NY, and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket: 2011) His commentaries and views have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, The Financial Times AP, the Nation and on MSNBC,CNN, the BBC among others.
Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling The Map Of Love (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into more than 30 languages). Other work includes her account of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, Cairo: A City Transformed (2014) and her influential collection of essays Mezzaterra (2004). Her articles for the Guardian are published in the European and American press.
In 2007 Ms Soueif founded the Palestine Festival of Literature – PalFest, a travelling festival which takes place in cities across occupied Palestine. Out of that she co-edited This Is Not A Border: Reportage and Reflections From the Palestine Festival Of Literature (2017).
Ms Soueif was the first recipient of the Mahmoud Darwish Award (Palestine:2010) and received the European Cultural Foundation’s 2019 Princess Margriet Award.
Artists For Palestine UK (APUK) is a growing network of artists and cultural workers standing together for Palestinian rights and a just resolution for all in Israel / Palestine, including for Palestinian refugees. APUK was launched in 2015. More details are available at: artistsforpalestine.org.uk
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