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Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza

Book Talk + Short Film Screening with Haidar Eid, presented with Between the Lines

Date & Time

Saturday May 24, 12-2PM

Location

United Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil St
Toronto, ON

Accessibility

ASL Provided. Masks are required. This venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms. For any questions relating to accessibility, please email programming@mayworks.ca

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Banging on the Walls of the Tank is a collection of reflections and analysis written over eighteen years in Gaza by Palestinian academic and activist, Haidar Eid. Providing an insider’s perspective on the blockade of Gaza since 2007, the Israeli attacks in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021, the Great March of Return, and the ongoing genocide committed by the apartheid Israeli state, Eid’s essays examine political alternatives, opportunities for resistance, and prospects for a just peace after more than a century of dispossession. Learn more about the book.

The event includes a screening of Returning to Zarnouqa, a short film on Palestinian generational displacement, genocide, and the inevitability of return.

The book talk and screening will be followed by a Q&A with the author. Haidar Eid will be joining over Zoom from South Africa.

All Mayworks Festival events are free. Registration required.

Haidar Eid is an associate professor of postcolonial and postmodern literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine and a research associate at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, on the advisory board of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and a member of the Board of Directors of BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. He is the author of Worlding Postmodernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory, Countering the Palestinian Nakba: One State for All, and Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind.

Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977. BTL publishes nonfiction books that expose and challenge oppression in our society. They aim to amplify the struggles of Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities; migrants; women; queer folks; and working-class people. BTL is proudly leftwing and the books we publish reflect our activist roots and our commitment to social justice struggles. Their authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists—all our authors hope their books will spark political and social change. As a product of New Left radicalism, BTL embodies the cooperative and democratic ideals of its founders. BTL has no boss, no individual owner; we are run by a small staff and a dedicated volunteer editorial committee.BTL publish books not to seek profit, but to document and promote struggles for a better world, challenge the mainstream, and offer readers new perspectives on critical political issues.