Mosab Abu Toha: Forest of Noise

”Every one flower is my eye.
Every hole in the earth
is my wound.”

Pulitzer Prize winner and founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has achieved incredible things in his first three decades of life. He was barely 30 when the most recent siege of Gaza began and he started writing his latest poetry collection Forest of Noise. In this conversation event, Mosab shares his poetry, full of fury and longing, and speaks to the land and culture that influence his work.

Hear Mosab in conversation with Sara M. Saleh.