Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet and writer who grew up in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. In this talk, which constitutes the key note lecture to the closed workshop On Exile, Resistance and Universal Resonance that will be held at the Kreisky Forum November 19-20, Nathalie Handal will explore various topics that regularly feature in her poetry, such as the concept of otherness or belonging that are central to the Palestinian experience.

More detailed insights about Nathalie's life and poetry can be found HERE.

Moderation: Prof. Dr Refqa Abu-Remaileh

Nathalie Handal, French-American poet and writer born to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem.

Nathalie is presently based in Rome and Abu Dhabi, where she is a professor at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Refqa Abu-Remaileh , Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project PalREAD-Country of Words : Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the present (2018-2023)