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Nowhere is Safe in Gaza: from legal document to erasure poem, a Conversation with Feisal G. Mohamed Episode
Today it is a true honor to welcome Feisal G. Mohamed to Speaking Out of Place to discuss his new poem, Nowhere is safe in Gaza. This book is “an erasure poem using as source text South Africa’s Application Instituting Proceedings against Israel for Violations of the Genocide Convention,” presented to the International Court of Justice in December 2023. We talk about both the distance and also the bridge between the legal filing and this poetic creation, which re-distributes the language of the filing in different spatial manners, both allowing, and forcing the reader to confront the genocide…
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