Palestinian author,, Asmaa al-Ghoul, who lives in exile in Toulouse, spoke on a panel at the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) convened by journalist and author Ben Ehrenreich during the brief November ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The event featured a screening of Palestinian artist Samira Badran’s Memory of the Land, and a discussion of the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis with poet and editor Mohamad Bitari, journalist Mariam Barghouti, and al-Ghoul.

The panel features segments in Arabic and Spanish, but there is simultaneous translation available in English here.

Presented by the CCCB, the Tàpies Foundation, Catalan PEN, the International Catalan Institute for Peace and the European Institute of the Mediterranean.