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Stand with Mosab Abu Toha! A Special Evening of Poetry & Solidarity

Date:
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Time:
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Revolution Books
Email:
Phone:
510-848-1196
Location Details:
Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704

Poets and writers present readings from the powerful works of Mosab Abu Toha, the beloved Palestinian poet and 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner who is being targeted with threats and deportation.

We stand as one… Mosab's voice must not be silenced.

Readers Include: Cheryl Davila, Rafael Jesús González, Satsuki Ina, Devi S. Laskar, and Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis (More to be announced)
Mosab Abu Toha has been described as the “essential poet embodying the humanity of Gaza.” He is also a scholar, teacher, journalist-- and the founder of the Edward Said Library, the first English-language library in Gaza (now destroyed by the Israeli Defense Forces). Amid the chaos of Israel's all-out invasion of Gaza 19 months ago, Mosab kept writing -- until he and his family were forced to flee to the US. In November 2024, he published his second book of poems, Forest of Noise, to great acclaim.

But this past April, Mosab was forced to cancel his nationwide book tour owing to threats from Betar, the extreme right-wing vigilante organization targeting pro-Palestine voices. Like other Palestinian writers and activists in the US, and like so many immigrants... Mosab fears for his safety and the real possibility of abduction and deportation.

In May, Mosab Abu Toha received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for journalism, for his writings in The New Yorker.

Read and sign the Statement in support of Mosab Abu Toha initiated by Revolution Books here:
https://revolutionbooksnyc.org/Toha.htm

Order his books Forest of Noise: Poems and Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza at http://www.revolutionbooks.org.

Revolution Books, New York is having a similar program on June 4th..
Added to the calendar on Wed, Jun 4, 2025 9:56AM
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