Our Reading Circle in Munich, on History & Decolonial Thought
One hundred years of Palestinian history in conversation with artistic expression. You can find the material here.
Event realized in Rachel Carson Center, in collaboration with Decolonial Practices, in the context of Franz Fanon’s centenary and the closing session of our reading of “The Wretched of the Earth”.
The format we used, the no-homework club, enabled people to show up with no prior preparation. By the end, we had something concrete: a Q&A kit that covered the whole book. That became the foundation for the Informative Exhibit. You can find the Q&A for the Hundred Years’ War here.
Cycle #08: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
10 September – In Course
As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.
Cycle #07: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
20 January – 30 July
Ilan Pappe, history professor from Israel, author of this piece (2006) describing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages during the Nakba of 1948, under the growing influence of Zionism and the retreat of the British Mandate.
Cycle #06: Perfect Victims
5 October – 3 December (2025)
Mohammed El-Kurd, writer and poet from the West Bank, author of this “manifesto” (2025) that questions conditioned empathy with a critique of the idealization of victims in Palestine, appealing to a Western/liberal audience.
Cycle #05: The Wretched of the Earth
2 July – 3 September (2025)
Frantz Fanon, philosopher and psychiatrist from Martinique, author of this iconic book (1961) that dissects the effects of colonialism on the psychology of its individuals, along with an strategic and cultural roadmap toward the liberation of his beloved Algeria.
Cycle #04: Orientalism
11 April – 19 June (2025)
Edward Said, literary critic and professor from Palestine, author of this analysis (1978) on the Western influence in the creation of the concept of “Orient”, both in the cultural and political contexts, and its ties to imperialism through different historical periods.
Cycle #03: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
6 March (2025)
Isabella Hammad, a british/palestinian novelist, recounts her lecture (2024) at Columbia University, analyzing the war on Palestine as a turning point in the narrative of human history, shedding light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Cycle #02: Gaza, an Inquest into its Martyrdom
24 October (2024) – 13 February (2025)
Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish-American political scientist, author of this detailed account (2018) on international law observations of numerous Israeli military operations in Gaza in the 2000s, which led to a subsequent political and economical disaster.
Cycle #01: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
15 August – 10 October (2024)
Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American historian, author of this comprehensive assesment (2020) of the events surrounding the colonial war waged on Palestine during 1917 and 2017, and its many agents and political decisions.
