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The UCLA Departments of English, Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Edward Said Chair in Comparative Literature present a talk by Huda J. Fakhreddine, “Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of Gaza.”

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In the moment of genocide, Gaza becomes a language, a lens, an interrogation, a refutation of all that came before, and a compass for all that comes after. This talk launches from the murdered Gazan poet Hiba Abu Nada’s poem, “O How Alone We Are!” to present a reading of the Arabic poetic tradition through the lens of Gaza, highlighting a long Arabic legacy of confronting time and its calamities with defiant “alone-ness.”

The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Saree Makdisi, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at UCLA.

Huda J. Fakhreddine is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and 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).

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