Saeed Teebi returns to the Festival stage with You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times . What does it mean to be of the Palestinian diaspora in such a moment? What does it mean to be of a people who have sustained such a large-scale assault not only on their homeland, but their entire identity? What is the role of art, of language—of imagination—in asserting one’s identity, when that very assertion is read as an act of subversion?
This is at once a memoir of one family’s displacement, a scathing indictment of global complicity in the face of brutality, and a profound rumination on art and imagination as a means of defiance. It is an astonishing work of resistance by a major intellect, and it is both urgent and timeless.
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You Will Not Kill Our Imagination is one of the best books I’ve ever read on the psychological aftershocks of displacement, and the theft of home. It is not enough to call this work timely or necessary or clear-eyed, though it is all of these things. Saeed Teebi’s writing does something else, something more. It cuts through the fog of moral cowardice that has enabled so much horror for so long. This is literature of the highest order, vulnerable and open-hearted, unwilling to flinch or submit to self-censorship.
Saeed Teebi returns to the Festival stage with You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times . What does it mean to be of the Palestinian diaspora in such a moment? What does it mean to be of a people who have sustained such a large-scale assault not only on their homeland, but their entire identity? What is the role of art, of language—of imagination—in asserting one’s identity, when that very assertion is read as an act of subversion?
This is at once a memoir of one family’s displacement, a scathing indictment of global complicity in the face of brutality, and a profound rumination on art and imagination as a means of defiance. It is an astonishing work of resistance by a major intellect, and it is both urgent and timeless.
Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books.
The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children’s literacy initiatives.
