SfP Book Club – Minor Details by Adania Shibli

📎⁩ ⁨Save the Date! – SfP Book Club

Join us for our bookclub on Saturday, 13. June at 12:00 at Murx (Oberbadgasse 6)!

We will read and discuss the book »Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique« by researcher and activist Sa’ed Atshan, on how Palestinian LGBTQ+ activism is fighting against the pinkwashing and the occupation while enriching its surrounding society.
Come and get to know us, and get to read other books with us!

You don’t need to finish the book in advance, but we encourage you to at least read through the Introduction.

Our next book in July will be »Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism« by Islah Jad.

Please contact us per Email sfpheidelberg[at]protonmail.com or via Instagram @sfp-heidelberg in time to get more information, to get access to a digital version of the book, or for book suggestions 📖📚!

Looking forward to meeting you then!!

When: 9. Mai 2026, 12 Uhr

Where: Murx, Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg

ÖPNV: Rathaus/Bergbahn, Heidelberg oder Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

Accessibility: Largely accessible for people in wheelchairs

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Lecture: Poetry, Pain, and the Promise of Palestine, UofW, 7-9pm on Wednesday 26 November 2025

• What: Poetry, Pain, and the Promise of Palestine
• When: 7:00pm-9:00pm on Wednesday 26 November 2025
• Where: Federation Hall, University of Waterloo
• Location: 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
• Register Online: https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/poetry-pain-and-promise-palestine

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts is honoured to present guest speaker Dr. Sa’ed Atshan – scholar, Palestinian Quaker, and LGBTQ human rights advocate – on the role of poetry in capturing the realities of contemporary Palestinian life in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and beyond.

Please join us for this unique opportunity to explore how interdisciplinary scholarship can be applied to both understand and address a global crisis which has had such tragic human consequences.

About the speaker

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College. He has previously served as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He earned a PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies and MA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and BA from Swarthmore College. Atshan is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020), coauthor (with Katharina Galor) of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020), and co-editor (with Galor) of Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Details and proceedings

Registration is required for in-person and online attendance. For those attending in-person, proof of registration is required at the reception area.

• Doors open: 6:30 p.m.
• Lecture and moderated Q & A: 7:00 to 8:20 p.m.
• Reception for the in-person audience: 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Paid visitor parking is available in Lot M across from Federation Hall. More parking information.

This lecture is made possible through the generosity of alumni and friends. UofW Faculty of Arts extends sincere appreciation to the donors who contributed to the Foundation for Palestinian Studies Fund.

Watch past recordings from the UofW Palestinian Lectures series on YouTube.

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