Talk

Berlin is home to the biggest diaspora community of Palestinians outside the Middle East. Yet, their stories, struggles and demands are suppressed in public discourse. This presentation will walk through methods of erasure to push Palestinians outside of the public sphere, and infringing on fundamental rights to freedom of expression, protest, school law, citizenship, and deportation. Erasure is also prevalent in archival knowledge that is stored “about Palestinians” in the German Federal Archive. Here, law and the imaginary will be probed in addressing the Palestinian as unequal and unfree, one that needs to be tamed and disciplined. (Nahed Samour & Pary El-Qalqili)

• Programm Programme: Erasure of Past and Present. The Palestinian Case (curated by Oraib Toukan)