Presented by NYU Students for Justice in Palestine and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

As part of her residency with the A/P/A Institute at NYU, Nadine Fattaleh curates an evening of poetry within her exhibition Materials of Solidarity, “a multivocal response to the age-old question of the relationship between graphic production and social transformation.”

Hear from some of the voices of the student movement for a free Palestine as they offer poems that speak to and animate the images on display in the exhibition. The evening culminates with a special reading by the prolific Palestinian American poet Suheir Hammad, former A/P/A Institute Artist-in-Residence. 

NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required and space is limited. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID.

Accessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall, all gender restrooms available, and a lactation room. If you have any access needs, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.

Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian American poet, author, and political activist, who was born in 1973 in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York when she was five years old. She is the author of breaking poems, recipient of a 2009 American Book Awardand the 2009 Arab American Book Award for Poetry. Her other books include ZaatarDiva, Born Palestinian, Born Black, and Drops of This Story. Her work has been widely anthologized and her produced plays include Blood Trinity and breaking letter(s), as well as the libretto for the multimedia performance, “Re-Orientalism.” An original writer and performer in the TONY award-winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Hammad appears in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, Salt of This Sea. She was the 2010-11 Artist-in-Residence at A/P/A Institute at NYU.

Nadine Fattaleh is a Palestinian researcher, writer, and translator from Amman. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her translation of Khadijeh Habashneh’s Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit was published in May 2023. She has worked on film and public programs at Anthology Film Archives, Upstate Films, Maysles Documentary Center, Palestine Cuts, MMAG Foundation, and Mosaic Rooms. She contributes to a number of volunteer initiatives including the Palestine Film Index, an open access compilation of Palestinian cinema resources, and the Palestinian Social Fund, a grassroots, solidarity-based fund supporting agricultural cooperatives in the Occupied West Bank. Her writings have appeared in World Records, Seen Journal, Broudou Magazine, Science for the People Magazine, Jadaliyya, and n+1. She is the Fall 2024 Student Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.