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MEMORY FOR DENIAL (after Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness") The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets,...
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MEMORY FOR DENIAL (after Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness")
The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets, novelists, thinkers, musicians, filmmakers, activists - bearing witness to the ongoing Palestinian genocide which is routinely denied by Western states and their media, in some cases to the point of censoring any attempt to speak about it.
The war crimes and other atrocities being perpetrated by Israel in its project of colonialist occupation, land expropriation and ethnic cleansing cannot be allowed to be forgotten, least of all by those who continue to live in denial of what is happening.
Our unconditional support, solidarity, love and rage for Palestine,
firefly frequencies
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The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets, novelists, thinkers, musicians, filmmakers, activists - bearing witness to the ongoing Palestinian genocide which is routinely denied by Western states and their media, in some cases to the point of censoring any attempt to speak about it.
The war crimes and other atrocities being perpetrated by Israel in its project of colonialist occupation, land expropriation and ethnic cleansing cannot be allowed to be forgotten, least of all by those who continue to live in denial of what is happening.
Our unconditional support, solidarity, love and rage for Palestine,
firefly frequencies
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
You are all invited to send us contributions to this series.
Please send / write to:
fireflyfrequencies@gmail.com
Thank you!
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10 FEB 2026 · "in order for me to write poetry that isn’t
political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent"
The poem "Lines Without a Home", read by Ines Gobetti, is part of the collection "Il loro grido è la mia voce. Poesie da Gaza", Fazi Editore 2025.
Marwan Makhoul was born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother in 1979 in the village of Boquai'a in the Upper Galilee region of Palestine. He currently lives in the village of Maalot Tarshiha. He has published several works of poetry, including ‘Hunter of Daffodils’, ‘Land of the Sad Passiflora’, ‘Verses The Poems Forgot With Me’, ‘Where is my Mom?’ and ‘A Letter From The Last Man’. His poems have won several awards and appeared worldwide in Arabic publications and translated into many languages.
"Il loro grido è la mia voce"
https://fazieditore.it/libro/9791259677587
Thank you Ines for this powerful reading!
7 JAN 2026 · You can’t see it
but I stared too long at the hills
my eyes have bruised.
It’s on the inside,
beneath the skin, in the spot
closest to what they call the soul.
The hills are otherworldly and distant,
particularly those between Jericho and Amman—
from the taxi, they appear as a procession
of souls, or like snipers
contemplating the desert road.
Everything is in its place,
like a mathematical equation:
the living on one side,
and the dead on the other.
But from somewhere on those hills,
I imagine the dead
waving to us, trying
to climb down to the highway,
where the cars glimmer
before they vanish into the wind.
In the right lane, one truck
after another hauls stones
under a setting sun, where the wind
is the one true driver,
dragging us behind it, our necks
bent backward.
I can understand now that everything began here,
on this arid, lightless land.
Everything that came next was coincidence:
trees, rivers, insects, the shapes
of clouds and weeds,
and suspended bridges.
And it is here too
that everything will end, leaving no trace of this world
but the mystery of how it began.
I’m obsessed with the hills.
I can’t stop staring at them—
like I’m trying to remember where we met before,
like their name
is on the tip of my tongue. I try to pull it out
from a cavernous gorge within me.
From my childhood,
I’ve believed that if I stared
at anything long enough,
it would start to move.
This, of course, has never happened.
But the hills do in fact look
like they’re about to start walking towards me.
Just look at the droplets of light
shimmering above them:
like a hundred eyes opening at the same instant.
My bags are in the trunk,
and here,
in the hot air of the Jordan Valley,
I feel as though what my hands folded
just moments ago
were not my clothes
but crumpled souls,
and that what my eyes now watch
passing outside the window
are not the hills,
but the ruins of the roads we crossed
before we arrived in this world—
naked, bathed in bruises and blood,
and finally able
to scream.
Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet, playwright, and educator. She has published three Arabic poetry books, including "The Biography of the People of the City of R" (2021), "Enter World" (2025). The English translation of her poetry collection "Enter World" (translated by Sara Elkamel) is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026. She lives in Ramallah, Palestine.
Image: Birzeit Village, photo by Dalia Taha
7 JAN 2026 · Sabrina Amico legge il frammento 342 dal libro "Apeirogon" di Colum McCann, che racconta la preparazione della performance funambolica di Philippe Petit nella Valle dell'Hinnom.
Grazie Sabrina!
13 DEC 2025 · A collective reading from Tasneem Shatat's book "Archive Out of Coverage" at Spore Initiatives, Berlin, during the Gaza Biennale.
Thanks you all for your voices, Thank you Spore, and thank you, Tasneem, for this incredibly powerful project!
13 DEC 2025 · ITINERANT HISTORIES OF SOLIDARITY - Part 1
Spore Initiative, November 25, 2025
A Panel discussion during the opening week of the Gaza Biennale - Berlin Pavilion at Spore Initiative examining the Biennale as a global network of solidarity born in Gaza and expanding across the world.
The Gaza Biennale has emerged as a self-organized web of relations dedicated to the amplifying Palestinian voices where dominant frameworks seek to silence them. It is traveling around the world producing Pavilions, or أَجْنِحَة (wings)
From the first event at Spore Initiative, firefly frequencies welcome the voices of he co-founders of the Gaza Biennale, Tasneem Shatat and Ghanem El Den joining from Gaza, and Andreas Ibrahim (Forbidden Museum) joining from the West Bank, in conversation with curator and art historian Angela Harutyunyan. Together, they reflect on the project’s mobilizing force and on what it means to weave a biennale solely from relationships.
Thank you so much to all participants!
Forbidden Museum
https://alrisanartmuseum.org/
Spore Initiatives
https://spore-initiative.org/en/
Gaza Biennale
https://gazabiennale.org/
12 DEC 2025 · Palestinian Berlin-based artist YA Z AN travels around his hometown of Ramallah where he encounters sounds that comfort and remind him of home. He uses binaural technology to collect audio pieces from the verdant Palestinian landscape and sculpts them with sounds from everyday life to create a complete surround sound experience.
Setting off with a ‘oud player singing folklore music during a post-wedding ceremony and followed by a walk to home where family is gathered at a dinner table chit-chatting about food and how it is prepared, the recent events that resulted in the death of martyrs in Palestine and the earthquake that occurred in Syria/Turkey.
Progressing through the day, YA Z AN goes down to the city centre farmers market (Al-hisbeh) where a number of street vendors are shouting out the prices of their products.
Upon joining friends to hangout, the journey travels further to a jam session when surprisingly the rhythm of the community turns into a small choir.
The journey ends with Sufi singer Shadi Al-ahmad intoning his voice in his historical Palestinian home with a cross vault ceiling that accents his baritone.
Thank you so mcuh YA Z AN for this piece!
And many thanks to Belén Marinato and the Gaza Biennale Berlin Pavilion for introducing us to this work.
9 DEC 2025 · Zines from Gaza is an initiative of Coastal Lines Press - a project that gathered over 200 people to layout, design, illustrate and publish the texts of Gazan writers and artists in the form of zines.
During the Gaza Biennale they had a presentation and a zine-making workshop. The following recordings are by the authors of their own texts and they are installed at Casino for Social Medicine (Sonnenallee, Berlin) during the Berlin Pavilion.
Ahmad El Khuwaja, Someone’s Daughter
Khaled Al-Qershali, Breaking into my Home in Gaza City
Nour Abou Aisha, I Was Meant for Firewood & But the Tree Embraced Me
Samah Zaqqout, When Silence Screams
Shahd Alnaami, One Day
Sondos Al Saqqa, Aeries Tales
Shahd Alnaami, Until it passes
Sondos Al Saqqa, The Heart’s Gaze
Taqwa Al-Wawi, What the Body Remembers
Thanks all for these amazing texts and recordings!
FOR MORE INFO
https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/zines
https://www.instagram.com/zinesfromgaza/
21 NOV 2025 · As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present the piece "Al-Shadidah", which is part of Ola Al Shrif's statue of a slingshot. The sound is incorporated in the augmented reality statue to be found in Hermannplatz, Berlin.
This work has been developed in collaboration with Berlin-based collective Alternative Monument for Germany who designed the sound piece alongside an augmented reality version of Ola's work. The model for Al-Shadidah has been designed by Diaa Assaf (Burj El Barajneh, Lebanon).
The slingshot manifests in public space as a floating, ephemeral structure - its location “to be found,” its trajectory unpredictable - embodying the desire to move beyond fear, beyond walls, beyond imposed limits. The work traces the unsettled geographies of displacement, making absence and hope visible, and transforming survival into collective imagination.
The voice you hear is that of Ola explaining the story of how she came up with the idea of the large slingshot. The artist has also shared this story:
"During the genocide in Gaza, I was forcibly displaced to Rafah. I often went to the archaeological site of Tel Zaarab, where I could see the other side of the world: Egypt separated from me by nothing but a wall. A wall only 200 meters away, yet farther than any dream. I stood before it in disbelief: How can something made of concrete confine so much life? How can a wall become stronger than fear, time, and memory? In those moments, the border exceeded its geographical meaning. It was not merely a barrier, it became a boundary between survival and the possibility of life. There, amid smoke, noise, and terror, I imagined a giant slingshot, a mythical tool large enough to carry people over the wall into safety. I imagined it lifting us beyond its height, hurling our spirits first, then our bodies, into a place where no sounds of rockets, screams, fear or pain could reach us. I said to my friend, half joking with a wounded seriousness: “Let’s build a Slingshot! You throw me first, then someone throws you, and we escape this hell.” This humor was real. It was a way to survive. Because imagination there was not a luxury, it was a necessity. Imagination was our only way to carve a door toward life. Many in Gaza dreamt of crossing. But the wall was not the only obstacle… Above it, stood the price of survival, an enormous sum that took the path out of the hands of the poor and left them beneath the planes, waiting. “Shadidah” is not merely an object. It is a distilled metaphor for the desire to escape the impossible, an attempt to turn despair into action, fear into form, and borders into a point of departure. It stands as a monument to collective imagination: to bodies that could not take flight, to desires that found no passage, and to a stubborn hope still trying to pierce the wall. It is the inheritance of those who dreamed of leaving, but the world did not allow them. Yet despite everything they imagined a way."
Ola Al Shrif (b. in 1996, Gaza, Displaced in Abu Dhabi)
Ola Al Shrif's work has been profoundly impacted by the war in Gaza, during which she lost many of her artworks. Through the years, she has been creating an inventory of feelings based on her experiences of the war. Each feeling is represented by a work, while each work takes surprising material form. When words fail, when international law fails, it seems reality is up for grabs. What happens to the body within the act of resistance? In other words, how does the body experience and enact resistance? During the war, the people of Gaza have been forced to rethink so many basic and fundamental aspects of human life. From the body’s relationship to water, to the unimaginable sound of F-16s overhead and the never-ceasing sound of drones, when one’s relationship to our senses shifts in such a way, the elements of everyday life become monumental moments. Al Shrif’s aesthetic interventions allow us to experience the ‘invisible’ realities hidden in everyday life as if they were as clear as day. There is no such thing as an object outside of the vitality of life. Here, art reaches an essence: what appears to be an everyday object, separate from our body and our life, is transformed into an expression of the vital force of life.
ADfD (Alternative Monument for Germany) seeks forms that connect migration experiences and public memory culture. As a result of the current toxic discourse on migration in Germany, they feel an urgent need to connect and counteract in order to establish a positive frame for migration discourse and counter current xenophobic movements. They approach migration in its potential to weave spaces and memories into an inclusive, collective space. A safe space created and maintained by diverse, evolving communities. Their focus is on queer feminist voices as these have long been silenced.This raises the question: What might a monument commemorating migration look like? In what ways can memories of migration be shared and preserved? What significance can a collective approach have in expanding public space remembrance culture? What role can emerging digital formats play in this context
For more info see website: https://adfd.info/
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
21 NOV 2025 · As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Siraj Shawa's "Nazeh: When Displacement Learns to Sway"
Siraj Shawa is an electronic music producer and beat box artist, born in Gaza in 1993.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
21 NOV 2025 · As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present six poems by Palestinian artist Jehad Jarbou (in Arabic).
Sky and Fingers
When you begin to wrap a piece of thread around your fingers,
It reveals the direction of the wind.
Where are you?
Words begin to soar with the breeze, rising into the sky.
You speak to those who cannot hear,
Who cannot read,
Who cannot see.
You are speaking to yourself.
You start scattering words among the clouds:
To my father,
To my brother Hassan,
To all the friends in heaven.
And we are still suspended between sky and earth.
The sound of the airplane still terrifies me.
I’m still disturbed by the war.
I’m still afraid.
Eight months have passed,
And I still haven’t found myself.
To read the full texts in English
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wsvuwfdcom3aycb/Jehad+Jarbou+Texts.pdf/file
Jehad Jarbou (b. in 1999, Gaza, Displaced in Khan Younis)
Jehad Jarbou is a visual artist. her practice explores the borders related to Gaza as a "prison within a prison.” She is interested in evoking and narrating concepts related to identity, borders, memory, ten miles, and structures through her art. Jihad uses contemporary art as a tool to address these themes, including video art, conceptual photography, and written reflections.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
MEMORY FOR DENIAL (after Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness") The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets,...
show more
MEMORY FOR DENIAL (after Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness")
The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets, novelists, thinkers, musicians, filmmakers, activists - bearing witness to the ongoing Palestinian genocide which is routinely denied by Western states and their media, in some cases to the point of censoring any attempt to speak about it.
The war crimes and other atrocities being perpetrated by Israel in its project of colonialist occupation, land expropriation and ethnic cleansing cannot be allowed to be forgotten, least of all by those who continue to live in denial of what is happening.
Our unconditional support, solidarity, love and rage for Palestine,
firefly frequencies
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
You are all invited to send us contributions to this series.
Please send / write to:
fireflyfrequencies@gmail.com
Thank you!
show less
The idea of this podcast is to create a collective space of resistance and gather together different voices - artists, poets, novelists, thinkers, musicians, filmmakers, activists - bearing witness to the ongoing Palestinian genocide which is routinely denied by Western states and their media, in some cases to the point of censoring any attempt to speak about it.
The war crimes and other atrocities being perpetrated by Israel in its project of colonialist occupation, land expropriation and ethnic cleansing cannot be allowed to be forgotten, least of all by those who continue to live in denial of what is happening.
Our unconditional support, solidarity, love and rage for Palestine,
firefly frequencies
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
You are all invited to send us contributions to this series.
Please send / write to:
fireflyfrequencies@gmail.com
Thank you!
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