Maison Palestine
Posters and Poetry of Resistance!
Panel and reading “Posters and Poetry of Resistance” on October 23, 2025, from 5 to 7 PM.
Open to all, conference in English and French.
Join Maison Palestine on October 23rd for “Posters and Poetry of Resistance!” opening with the story of Palestinian political posters. Historian Dyala Hamzah will introduce the artists and the institutions involved in their production. Nyla Matuk and Leila Faraj will offer short readings of Palestinian resistance poetry, in English and French, by writers Mahmoud Darwish, Hiba Abu Nada, Rashid Hussein, Dareen Tatour, Tamim Barghouti, and Nyla Matuk.
— Glimmer of a Grove Beyond explores representations of Palestinian land and natural geography through an array of political posters drawn from the Palestinian Museum’s permanent collection. The collection includes a set of 540 Palestinian political posters, produced between the late-1960s and early-1990s, which were collected and generously donated by the late ambassador Ali Kazak.
Organization
Maison Palestine is a non-profit cultural organization, founded in 2023 in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, on unceded Indigenous territory. The organization is dedicated to the history, present, and future of Palestine, as refracted in the arts, social and political trajectories, and various other contemporary forms of knowledge production in the Palestinian diaspora.
Dyala Hamzah and Nyla Matuk are the cofounders of Maison Palestine, Dyala is a professor of Modern Arab History at Université de Montréal. Nyla Matuk is the author of two books of poetry and a forthcoming novel. Leila Faraj is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UQAM and a feminist activist with a career in humanitarian aid, international development and arts and culture.
Acknowledgements from Maison Palestine
We are grateful to the Palestinian Museum for partnering with us and allowing us to showcase their work. We cannot thank articule enough, for having embraced our project and opened its space to us; and our production assistant Hend Ben Salah, who juggled the scope of work and its specifications impeccably (all while launching our website!) We also thank our private donors for their generosity and trust, as well as Québec Solidaire’s Haroun Bouazzi and Ruba Ghazal, whose Soutiens à l’action bénévole have given meaningful support.
For any questions or requests concerning accessibility to the event or our gallery space, please contact James Goddard via email or by phone at 514-842-9686. For general accessibility information, please visit our dedicated page. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming space for all.
Considering ongoing COVID-19 and flu transmissions, please note that mask wearing is strongly recommended during events.
