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Learning Palestine

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Learning Palestine is a group of artists, academics, intellectuals and community members, who aim to disseminate knowledge on the history of the ongoing struggle for justice, liberation, and freedom of Palestine and the Palestinian People. The group practices new and old ways of disseminating this knowledge, that function out with the constraints of social media and corporate controlled networks. The initiative currently unfolds through four interconnected modes of learning:

The Learning Palestine sessions aim at learning and teaching (could also be ‘sharing knowledge’ or ‘disseminating knowledge’) about the ongoing oppression and resistance in Palestine through historical and personal storytelling. They are in-person, intimate sessions through which the story of Palestine is told through time and place, using the militant pedagogical techniques of drawing and writing, without showing images or pre-made visuals.

The 12 hour radio programs include lectures, interviews, book presentations, talks, storytelling, music, songs, poetry and chants, alongside other audio material collected from different online platforms.

We collaborate with Radio Alhara and other online platforms.

The Pamphlets is a collection of online essays that are essential readings for a comprehensive understanding of the Palestinian struggle. Authored by diverse writers from various backgrounds, these essays span different periods and cover a range of topics. Learning Palestine is (re)publishing these texts to disseminate knowledge on the history and present-day struggles for justice and liberation for Palestine and the Palestinian people. The collective republishes these essays without seeking prior permission from authors or publishers, asserting the urgency of their circulation amid the ongoing genocidal war on Palestine. These publications are offered as tools for historical and political literacy in the service of liberation, grounded in the belief that knowledge must be activated to create a more just world. What is knowledge for if not to change the world to a just place for all?

The manifesto of Learning Palestine is titled ‘What is the Future of Art?: A Manifesto Against the State of the World’, and was presented at the Palestinian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. The manifesto is a call for urgent action in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, confronting the stark realities shielded by nation-state rhetoric and imperial power. Accompanied by poetry, the manifesto stands for dismantling nation-states, reclaiming land, and restoring art and poetry as essential tools of resistance.