MOSAB ABU TOHA is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker. Reading will be live streamed in the bookstore, with a reception to follow.

Sponsored by Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, Cornell University Library, Creative Writing Program, Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, IRGS (Indigeneity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality) Studies Initiative, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Literatures in English, Near Eastern Studies, SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) Initiative.

We are proud to partner with Buffalo Street Books for this event. Buffalo Street Books is Ithaca’s only non-profit independent bookstore, dedicated to serving its community through books and literary programming. Mosab Abu Toha’s books are available online, in-store, and on-site at the reading. Show your student ID at BSB and get 10% off every day!