Lectures, readings and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive, monthly on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves. Mixing by Justin Tam. Graphic design by Rand Raid.
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Ghassan Zaqtan reads from Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me
In 'Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me', Ghassan Zaqtan’s tenth poetry collection, translator Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers new works by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time.
Ghassan Zaqtan was born in 1954 near Bethlehem and lives in Ramallah. He has worked with the Palestinian resistance movement and was editor of Bayader, the literary magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. He is efitor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry journal Al-Shoua’ra and is co-founder and director of the House of Poetry in Ramallah.
Fadi Joudah is a practicing physician of internal medicine and an award-winning poet and translator. Among his translations are two poetry collections by Mahmoud Darwish, 'The Butterfly’s Burden' and 'If I Were Another', for which he won the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award. He was also the winner of the 2008 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation (http://www.banipaltrust.org.uk/prize/award2008.cfm) for 'The Butterfly’s Burden'.
https://archive.mosaicrooms.org/event/ghassan-zaqtan-2/
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7 Nov 2025
Voices of the Nakba: Salman Abu Sitta, Lena Jayyusi, Mahmoud Zeidan, Diana Allan
These living histories and testimonies from first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are shared by contributors the book Voices of the Nakba.
This conversation took place as part of the Stateless Heritage exhibition by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti at the Mosaic Rooms in London, 23 November 2021.
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine is released by Pluto Press.
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28 Aug 2025
Nuclear Colonialism Q&A
Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.
These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.
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28 Aug 2025
Alisher Khassengaliyev: Anti-nuclear activism in Kazakhstan
Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.
These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.
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28 Aug 2025
Maïa Tellit Hawad: Colonial toxicity and uranium mines in the Sahara
Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.
These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.
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28 Aug 2025
David Burns: Indigenous resistance to British nuclear “testing” in Maralinga, South Australia
Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.
These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.
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28 Aug 2025
Samia Henni: French architectural violence in Algeria and the Sahara
Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.
These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'.
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19 Jun 2025
Printmaker Mohammad Omar Khalil on slowing down through printmaking
Printmaker Mohammad Omar Khalil discusses his preference for black and white art, his embodied creative process, and sustaining a career as an artist in New York in an interview with writer Maya Jaggi.
4 Apr 2025
Abdellatif Laâbi gives advice to young writers + readings from ‘The Bottom of the Jar’
Abdellatif Laâbi and translator André Naffis-Sahely read from Laâbi’s novel The Bottom of the Jar in its first English translation, and Laâbi reads a list of advice, wisdoms and aspirations for new writers.
The Bottom of the Jar recreates Laâbi’s childhood city of Fez, Morocco, through Nanoussa, his semi-fictional kindred spirit. It holds the energy of the final days of the French occupation, and the path to liberation.
More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.
Mixing by Justin Tam
Graphic design by Rand Raid
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6 Mar 2025
Edward W. Said London Lecture: Raji Sourani
Human rights lawyer Raji Sourani delivers a powerful Edward W. Said London Lecture, where he confronts the reality of the ongoing Gaza genocide and Israel's assault on international law and Palestinians. Sourani fled Gaza in late 2023 when his home was bombed, and now lives with his family in Cairo. Sourani is a member of the South African delegation on the genocide case against Israel before the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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28 Oct 2024
A Friend's Kitchen: Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
A Friend’s Kitchen emerges in the aftermath of Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s arrival to London in 2012, after a forced exile from Sudan, when he was separated from his wife and children for nearly five years. During late, uncertain nights awake in a strange city, he would write brief, mystical, often stream-of-consciousness texts to post on Facebook, his primary means of communication with loved ones in Khartoum. The midnight musings soon developed into poems.
In this episode, Al-Raddi reads from this collection, with reflections and translations from poets Bryar Bajalan and Shook.
Recorded in London on 10 July 2023, at the Mosaic Rooms.
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24 Sept 2024
Rashid Khalidi & Karma Nabulsi
In 2020, the Mosaic Rooms hosted a conversation between Karma Nabulsi and Rashid Khalidi around Khalidi’s publication ‘The 100 Years’ War on Palestine’. Khalidi shares 50+ years of research on British imperialism in Palestine and Ireland and the frantic response to the non-violent, grassroots boycott movement. Drawing from his book that weaves together the voices of journalists, poets, and resistance leaders with his own personal experiences, Khalidi journeys us through the hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonisation.
ore lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.
Mixing by Justin Tam
Graphic design by Rand Raid
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