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In the framework of Human Rights Week, this literary evening focuses on writing from Gaza and the role of literature in times of genocide: how words can resist erasure and reclaim what violence seeks to destroy. Authors Fatena Al-Ghorra and Karim Abualaroos will engage in conversation with Brigitte Herremans and discuss the meaning of writing and how writing becomes a means of expression and survival.

Fatena Al-Ghorra is a Palestinian-Belgian writer and the author of six books, five of which are poetry collections. She will read from her recent poetry and texts from her latest work, 'Exodus to Gaza', a collection of letters to her niece, Lamar, written during her time under siege at Al-Quds Hospital. There, alongside thousands of Gazans and her elderly parents, she sought refuge from the relentless Israeli bombardments.

Karim Abualaroos is a writer and researcher from Gaza who now lives in Belgium. He will read from his texts that explore everyday life in Gaza and reflect on his experience of writing from within the siege, as well as on the relationship between literature and memory under collective violence.