About this Event
What does it mean to bear witness — and why does documentation matter in the face of erasure?
Join us for a powerful panel discussion featuring Susan Abulhawa and Mohammad Mhawish on the importance and process of documenting genocide.
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian scientist, writer, and activist, author of Mornings in Jenin, The Blue Between Sky and Water, and Against the Loveless World. She also compiled Every Moment is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide, an anthology of testimonies and short stories written by people in Gaza.
Mohammad Mhawish is award-winning writer and journalist from Gaza City. A contributor to The New Yorker and New York Magazine, Mohammed is a fellow at Type Media Center and a contributing reporter to the Palestine Reporting Lab. He is also a Knight Press Freedom Fellow at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism in New York. He is a recipient of several journalism awards, including the Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism, and two awards from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. In 2025, Mhawish was named Storyteller of the Year by the Institute for Middle East Understanding.
Together, they will speak to the role of storytelling, evidence, and memory in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
About the Exhibit
This event is a part of our first ever exhibition of Architecture of Genocide, a 3D mapping Gaza's infrastructure before and after two and a half years of destruction — on display April 3rd–5th.
Through detailed maps, the exhibit traces how Israel has systematically targeted every aspect of life that is critical to our people's survival. All hospitals, schools, power plants, water wells, agricultural land and civil infrastructure destroyed with the intention to make Gaza uninhabitable. The Gaza maps serve as a tool to document this destruction. But it also tells another story: of a people who, despite a 17-year siege, built homes, communities, and critical infrastructure in ordder to remain on their land.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Queens, United States
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