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Didier FassinChaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of GazaPolitics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza: ConclusionColloque - Didier Fassin : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza: ConclusionDidier Fassin

Didier FassinChaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of GazaWords Under Siege: A Personal Journey with Language as Resistance and RepairColloque - Mahmoud Alshaer : Words Under Siege: A Personal Journey with Language as Resistance and RepairMahmoud AlshaerA poet, writer, and cultural curator, Mahmoud Alshaer is based in Gaza. He is the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of 28 Magazine, an independent literary and cultural platform he co-founded in 2014 to amplify emerging Palestinian voices. His work explores the intersections of poetry, political erasure, cultural survival, and collective memory under siege. He has participated in international programs such as the New Alphabet School and the Berlin Biennale. He authored Letters from Gaza (2025) and A Year on the Abyss of Genocide (2025).

Didier FassinChaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of GazaThe Tent Has No Door: Palestinian poetry in and out of placeColloque - Diana Allan : The Tent Has No Door: Palestinian poetry in and out of placeDiana AllanAn anthropologist and filmmaker, Diana Allan is associate professor at McGill University, where she co-directs the Critical Media Lab. Her publications and films explore Palestinian displacement in Lebanon. She is the author of Refugees of the Revolution: Experience of Palestinian Exile (2014), and Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021). Her film Partition (2025) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is the co-founder of the Nakba Archive and a Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Living Archives.

Didier FassinChaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of GazaOur Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of GazaColloque - Huda Fakhreddine : Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of GazaHuda J. FakhreddineA writer and translator, Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). Her writings include a creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya A Brief Time under a Different Sun (2019). She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and section editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam.

Didier FassinChaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of GazaStanding on the Rubble: on Ruins and the Work of MourningColloque - Isabella Hammad : Standing on the Rubble: on Ruins and the Work of MourningIsabella HammadA writer, Isabella Hammad is the author most recently of Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024) and of the novel Enter Ghost (2023), which received the Aspen Prize, the Clark Prize, and the Encore Award. Her work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. She was the 2024-2025 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.