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MEMORY FOR DENIAL

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MEMORY FOR DENIAL (after Mahmoud Darwish"s "Memory for Forgetfulness")The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets, novelists, thinkers, musicians, filmmakers, activists - bearing witness to the ongoing Palestinian genocide which is routinely denied by Western states and their media, in some cases to the point of censoring any attempt to speak about it.The war crimes and other atrocities being perpetrated by Israel in

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E29 - Versi senza casa (Marwan Makhoul, read by Ines...

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2026/02/10

"in order for me to write poetry that isn’tpolitical, I must listen to the birdsand in order to hear the birdsthe warplanes must be silent"The poem "Lines Without a Home", read by Ines Gobetti, is part of the collection "Il loro grido è la mia voce. Poesie da Gaza", Fazi Editore 2025.Marwan Makhoul was born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother in 1979 in the village of Boquai'a in the Upper Galilee region of Palestine. He currently lives in the village of Maalot Tarshiha. He has published

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E 28 - Enter Hills (Dalia Taha, read by Graeme Thomson)

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2026/01/07

You can’t see itbut I stared too long at the hillsmy eyes have bruised.It’s on the inside,beneath the skin, in the spotclosest to what they call the soul.The hills are otherworldly and distant,particularly those between Jericho and Amman—from the taxi, they appear as a processionof souls, or like sniperscontemplating the desert road.Everything is in its place,like a mathematical equation:the living on one side,and the dead on the other.But from somewhere on those hills,I imagine the deadwaving to

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E27 - Apeirogon (Colum McCann, letto da Sabrina Amico)

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2026/01/07

Sabrina Amico legge il frammento 342 dal libro "Apeirogon" di Colum McCann, che racconta la preparazione della performance funambolica di Philippe Petit nella Valle dell'Hinnom.Grazie Sabrina!

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E26 - Archive Out of Coverage (Tasneem Shatat /...

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2025/12/13

A collective reading from Tasneem Shatat's book "Archive Out of Coverage" at Spore Initiatives, Berlin, during the Gaza Biennale.Thanks you all for your voices, Thank you Spore, and thank you, Tasneem, for this incredibly powerful project!

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E25 - ITINERANT HISTORIES OF SOLIDARITY (Part 1)

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2025/12/13

ITINERANT HISTORIES OF SOLIDARITY - Part 1Spore Initiative, November 25, 2025A Panel discussion during the opening week of the Gaza Biennale - Berlin Pavilion at Spore Initiative examining the Biennale as a global network of solidarity born in Gaza and expanding across the world. The Gaza Biennale has emerged as a self-organized web of relations dedicated to the amplifying Palestinian voices where dominant frameworks seek to silence them. It is traveling around the world producing Pavilions, or

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E24 - A Journey Through Ramallah (YA Z AN)

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2025/12/12

Palestinian Berlin-based artist YA Z AN travels around his hometown of Ramallah where he encounters sounds that comfort and remind him of home. He uses binaural technology to collect audio pieces from the verdant Palestinian landscape and sculpts them with sounds from everyday life to create a complete surround sound experience.Setting off with a ‘oud player singing folklore music during a post-wedding ceremony and followed by a walk to home where family is gathered at a dinner table chit-chatting

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E23 - Zines from Gaza

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2025/12/09

Zines from Gaza is an initiative of Coastal Lines Press - a project that gathered over 200 people to layout, design, illustrate and publish the texts of Gazan writers and artists in the form of zines.During the Gaza Biennale they had a presentation and a zine-making workshop. The following recordings are by the authors of their own texts and they are installed at Casino for Social Medicine (Sonnenallee, Berlin) during the Berlin Pavilion.Ahmad El Khuwaja, Someone’s DaughterKhaled Al-Qershali,

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E22 - Al Shadidah / The Slingshot (Ola Al Shrif & ADfD)

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2025/11/21

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present the piece "Al-Shadidah", which is part of Ola Al Shrif's statue of a slingshot. The sound is incorporated in the augmented reality statue to be found in Hermannplatz, Berlin.This work has been developed in collaboration with Berlin-based collective Alternative Monument for Germany who designed the sound piece alongside an augmented reality version of Ola's work. The model for Al-Shadidah has been designed by Diaa Assaf (Burj El Barajneh,

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E21 - When Displacement Learns to Sway (Siraj Shawa)

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2025/11/21

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Siraj Shawa's "Nazeh: When Displacement Learns to Sway"Siraj Shawa is an electronic music producer and beat box artist, born in Gaza in 1993.GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBCPublic programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the

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E20 - Six Poems (Jehad Jarbou)

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2025/11/21

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present six poems by Palestinian artist Jehad Jarbou (in Arabic).Sky and FingersWhen you begin to wrap a piece of thread around your fingers,It reveals the direction of the wind.Where are you?Words begin to soar with the breeze, rising into the sky.You speak to those who cannot hear,Who cannot read,Who cannot see.You are speaking to yourself.You start scattering words among the clouds:To my father,To my brother Hassan,To all the friends in heaven.And

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E19 - Testimony (Aya Juha)

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2025/11/21

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Aya Juha's "Testimony" (in Arabic and English). In this recording the artist recounts the way Israeli's tanks surrounded their home and fired shells at their house, and some of her relatives were martyred.Aya Juha (b. in 1991, Gaza, displaced in North Gaza)Aya Juha’s work has long sought to find some meaning from the relentless suffering of Palestinians subjected to imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom. How does the experience of an individual

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E18 - I Miss You Deeply (Khaled Hussein)

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2025/11/21

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present a short extract of the sound of Khaled Hussein's installation "I Miss You Deeply". The sculptures at the center of his installation speak to Palestinian "sumud" (steadfastness) in the face of genocide. The artist creates his sculptures with clay made from mud - an impermanent material also used for making stoves and fire pits. His process is not complete when he finishes his sculptures. Instead, the documentation of the creation, destruction

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E17 - Return (Hala Eid Alnaji)

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2025/11/21

As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Hala Eid Alnaji's "Return" (in English and Arabic). In this powerful recording, the artist recounts her family’s history of displacement tracing back the thread of loss from her exile through Gaza and to the Nakba."Return" is part of the installation "Nazeh’s Lexicon: The Language of Displacement".Hala Eid Alnaji (b. in 1988 in Gaza, Displaced outside Gaza) is an architect, an artist, and a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster in

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E16 - Enter Ghost/Entra il fantasma (Isabella Hammad...

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2025/10/30

Maurizia Balmelli reads an extract from her Italian translation of Isabella Hammad's novel Enter Ghost in which a UK-Palestinian theatre actress makes a journey to her homeland and becomes involved in an attempt to stage an Arabic-language production of "Hamlet" in the West-Bank. Thank you so much Maurizia!Free, free Palestine!ABOUT THE BOOKhttps://www.marsilioeditori.it/libri/scheda-libro/2979185/entra-il-fantasmaREAD A CHAPTER IN

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E15 - Some Strings: Agora at FID-Marseille

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2025/07/22

FID Marseille, Sunday July 13th 2025AGORA : "Palestine as a starting point"What imaginaries, what works, what practices could lead us to produce traces of singularities and force history to change its course? Open discussion among filmmakers and artists (including Narimane Mari, Fatma Chérif, Ghassan Salhab, Carolina Adriazola, José Luis Sepúlveda, Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, Catherine Libert), students from FID Campusand audience members. The conversation is mainly in French, with some

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E14 - (Shadow of) The Shadow of the West

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2025/06/26

In this episode we present the soundtrack of Edward Said's 1983 film project Shadow of the West (directed by Geoff Dunlop), in which he draws connections between the oppression and violent displacement of Palestinians and the colonialist West's orientalist dream of controlling the Arab world. A full transcript, with English translations of interviews in Arabic, can be downloaded here:

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E13 - When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (Raja Shehadeh,...

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2025/02/23

When the Israeli army invaded Palestine in April 2002, many of the principal towns, including Ramallah, were held under seige. Lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh’s diary of the time, published as When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, vividly portrays the feelings of terror and powerlessness he and others experienced during this violent incursion into their homeland. In this extract from the diary, read by Laura Strack, Shehadeh writes of his worries about his brother’s young family as they

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E12 - ESILIO (4) Contrappunto - A Edward Said (di...

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2025/02/21

Chiara Guidi interpreta per firefly frequencies il testo di Darwish scritto in memoria di Edward Said.Cofondatrice della Compagnia SOCIETAS, Chiara Guidi sviluppa una personale ricerca sulla voce come chiave drammaturgica nel dischiudere suono e senso di un testo.Grazie infinite, Chiara!Tratto da Mahmud Darwish, "Come fiori di mandorlo o più lontano", trad. it. di Chirine Haidar, Epoché, Milano 2010See English translationhttps://mondediplo.com/Counterpoint

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E11 - Les gêneurs (Gilles Deleuze, read by Chiara Guidi)

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2025/01/29

La questione palestinese è una delle lotte politiche a cui Deleuze si dedicò con maggior ardore. L’impegno del filosofo francese è rappresentato principalmente da quattro interventi raccolti in "Due regimi di folli": "I seccatori" (1978), "Gli indiani di Palestina" (1982), "Grandezza di Yasser Arafat" (1983), "Le pietre" (1984). Chiara Guidi, cofondatrice della compagnia teatrale Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, legge per firefly frequencies il testo "I seccatori".Thanks a lot Chiara!Image: Emily Jacir -

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E10 - A poet in time of war (Hind Jouda)

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2025/01/21

Palestinian poet Hind Jouda reads her poem A poet in time of war / شاعرة في زمن الحرب:Thank you so much Hind!English translation (by by Ahmed M. Saleh)What does it mean to be a poet in times of war?It means apologizingextensively apologizing to the burnt treesto the nestless birdsto the crushed homesto the long cracks along the streetsto the pale-faced children before and after deathto the faces of every sad or murdered mother What does it mean to be safe in times of war?It means being ashamedof

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