“Our experiences aren't homogenous, there is not one way to be Palestinian or Arab…our literature is moving forward and the rest of the world has to catch up.”
The panel celebrated the life and legacy of Palestinian poet and scholar, Professor Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 6, 2023.
In her prose and her poetry, Sara M. Saleh renders unique the ways people resist, transcend, adapt, make the best of things, compromise, endure, and lose hope and faith.