Book Launch: Everything We Thought Was Beautiful

Join us for our Wales launch of 'Everything We Thought Was Beautiful': Interviews With Radical Palestinian Women.

Doors 6pm for a 6.15pm start. Stay for Palestinian nibbles from 7.15pm until close.

Edited by Shoal Collective, this recently published book features 13 interviews with Palestinian women spanning continents and years. Women who are not only active in the struggle for the freedom of their people but in globally connected struggles for liberation.

Nearly three years since Israel began its genocide in Gaza, Western media continues to invite Palestinians to comment only on the humanitarian situation and the horrors they endure, while no space is made for their political agency and experience. Within this, women are often portrayed as passive victims of violence.

As Israel escalates and expands its deadly colonial project across Palestine and Lebanon and bombards Iran - with the full participation of the US, UK and others - it's never been a more important time to hear from radical Palestinian women.

Interviewees include Ayah Al-Ghazzawi, a BDS activist in Gaza, Shatha Abu Srour, a disability rights advocate in Bethlehem, and Samah Fadil, an Afro-Palestinian writer and poet in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada.

We will be reading excerpts from the book and will hear from some of the women via recordings and video.

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For more details about the book or to buy, please see PM Press UK: https://pmpress.org.uk/product/everything-we-thought-was-beautiful/

Fifty percent of author royalties that Shoal Collective receives from the publisher will be donated to Palestinian fundraisers and organisations chosen by the women interviewed. The remainder will go towards book-related expenses.

For more on Shoal Collective, see https://shoalcollective.org/

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Railway Gardens, Adeline Street, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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