Lesson Plan

Amplifying the Imagination: Great Works of Literature

This lesson plan contains episodes that hight works of literature and art that help us imagine different ways of living in the world. They identify problems, concerns, confusion, violence, and explore ways to live with and beyond them.

Podcast Episodes

“Exhibit G”–Viewing Palestinian Interiority: A Conversation with Fady Joudah

Palestine, Politics and Culture, Amplifying the Imagination: Great Works of Literature, Palestine as Presence

Today I have the honor and privilege to speak with poet and physician Fady Joudah about his stunning new book– Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza. Along with powerful and demanding texts, Exhibit G features a collection of photographs of Gaza...

Nowhere is Safe in Gaza: from legal document to erasure poem, a Conversation with Feisal G. Mohamed Episode

Reincarnation, The Haptic, Food, and Wonder: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh on his new novel, Ghost Eye

Anna Badkhen: To See Beyond—Finding the Language of Survival and Hope

Maya Salameh: How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave and A New Grammar of Diaspora

Arabic Literature in the Time of Genocide: A Conversation with Huda Fakhreddine

Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide–A Conversation with Yousef Aljamal

Walking with the Below: Zapatistas, Palestinians, and Panthers—A Conversation with Linda Quiquivix

The Journey Toward Everything for Everyone: A Conversation with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi

A Conversation with Laila Lalami on The Dream Hotel: dreaming beyond the algorithmic state

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