Cancellation note: Our visiting poet, Mosab Abu Toha, has been advised by his immigration attorney not to travel to California given the escalating threats against him. We respect and understand his decision, and while our Stanford event has been cancelled we urge you all to return to Mosab’s published writing in Forest of Noise, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, Tastarih al-Ard min Kalamina, and at the New Yorker. Mosab adds that it is his wish to come and speak at Stanford as soon as the circumstances allow.

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Join us for a reading and conversation with Mosab Abu Toha, the internationally acclaimed Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. His newest poetry collection Forest of Noise was released in fall 2024, and his first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker.

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This event is co-sponsored by the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the department of Comparative Literature, Stanford Public Humanities, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Arab Futures and Pasts: Palestine+ Faculty Research Network, Creative Writing, the Department of English, the Markaz Resource Center, Asian American Studies, the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Office, the Middle Eastern Studies Forum, and the PATH+ Focal Group at the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL).

Books will be available for purchase at the event.