About this Event
Ramzy Baroud has argued for more than 20 years that Gaza is the epicentre of the Palestinian struggle, not because of its geographical location, resources or size but because of the sumud, the steadfast resistance, of its people, which has made it impossible for Israel to pursue its settler-colonial expansion without consequences.
The events of the last eight months, he says, have fully borne this out.
Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist and author. He has been editor of the since 1999, and was formerly managing editor of .
His books, which have been translated into Arabic, French, Korean, Malayalam and Turkish among other languages, include (2009), (2018) and (2020). Most recently, he co-edited with Ilan Pappé (2022).
With Samah Sabawi and Jehan Bseiso, he is co-author of the poetry collection (2016).
His journalism has been published in hundreds of newspapers and journals, from the International Herald Tribune to the Jordan Times to CounterPunch. He is also a frequent guest on television and radio worldwide.
His website is ramzybaroud.net.
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His daughter Zarefah Baroud will also be speaking. An activist in the United States, where she is the social-media manager of American Muslims for Palestine, she is currently completing a doctorate under Ilan Pappé at Exeter. You can read her latest article for Al Jazeera here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00 to GBP 5.00
