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Spore Hosts: Gaza in Hebrew Letters
A panel discussion marking the publication of Israel’s Heterotopy: Gaza in Israeli Politics and Culture
20. March 2025
19.30-21.15
19.30-21.15
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For free
for adults
in English
Just two months prior to October 7, 2023, a pioneering work was published in Hebrew, to address its most pertinent “Other”: Gaza, the city, the strip, the place, most of all as a signifier in language and media.
Oscillating between two forms of imaginations, the globalized and the very local, Israel’s Heterotopia (edited by Omri Ben Yehuda and Dotan HaLevi, Tel Aviv: Gama Press, 2023) aims to avoid an orientalist approach of geo-political knowledge of ‘’the Orient’’. Instead, it suggests a look to the Israeli self, consolidated and contested in meeting and avoiding its Other: the Palestinian refugee.
Speakers: Iris Hefets, Zahiye Kundos, Alma Itzhaki, and Loaay Wattad
Respondent: Hannah (Omri) Ben Yehuda
Chair: Hannah Tzuberi
