Ramzy Baroud World Tour Continues: Kenya, London (VIDEO)
Children marching at a Pro-palestinian march in Kenya on Quds Day. (Photo: Supplied)
Dear readers,
I am embarking on the third leg of my world tour, which this time will take me to Kenya and, again, to the UK.
I will be in Nairobi from June 25 to July 3 on a ground-breaking tour to discuss my latest book, The Last Earth (Pluto, 2018). I will be speaking at various venues across the city.
The book tells the stories of dispossession, exile, and loss of ordinary Palestinians – but it is also about hope and resistance in modern Palestine. I hope that, in some way, The Last Earth, will change the way that Kenyans see Palestine and its people.
My hosts, the Kenya Palestine Solidarity Movement (KPSM) – share my hope.
“Kenya’s own history and struggle against colonialism put us in a unique position to understand the liberation and anti-colonial struggle of the Palestinian people. We hope that Ramzy will provide a clearer understanding of the occupation of Palestine for Kenyan audiences,” said KPSM co-chairperson, Naomi Barasa.
In writing The Last Earth, I drew on dozens of interviews to produce a vivid and intimate account of Palestinian lives – in villages, refugee camps, prisons, and cities, in the lands of their ancestors and in exile.
Ordinary Palestinians have rarely narrated their own history, and this is an attempt to reclaim our narrative. The stories of the occupation are told by the occupier, the stories of colonialism are told by the colonizers.
A new generation of Palestinian intellectuals must challenge Israeli narrative, the same way we must challenge other stereotypes: the image of Africa as helpless, hungry and in desperate need of civilization was planted in our minds by the same people who view Arabs – and Palestinians in particular – as terrorists.
After the Kenyan tour, I will attend the Palestine Expo in London.
It is the world’s largest exhibition on Palestine, organized by the British NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), and aims to bring awareness to the Palestinian cause during the two-day event which is being held in the iconic Olympia Exhibition Centre.
I will have the honor to share a platform with fifty renowned speakers, authors, scholars, campaigners and political figures.
I hope to meet some of you in Nairobi and London.
More on my ongoing tour soon ..
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