Edward Said’s legacy is celebrated by writers, poets, novelists and musicians who engage with his ideas on the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

To mark the re-publication of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine, this landmark event gathers eight key authors to reflect on the enduring legacy of Said’s work and its role in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

Saree Makdisi, Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Jehad Abusalim, Avi Shlaim, Ahdaf Soueif, Jacqueline Rose and Max Porter consider what The Question of Palestine has become today, and the painful contradiction that Said himself would observe: that Palestinian gains in international moral and cultural standing since the book’s publication have done nothing to prevent the continuous losses of land and life; and that the establishment of Palestinian histories and narratives in the broader public imagination has led not to equality, but to dehumanisation and death on a scale previously unimaginable.

An urgent, unique, unmissable event.

Presented in cooperation with the Palestine Festival of Literature and Fitzcarraldo Editions