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The program begins at 12 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
Please join us for a virtual session of open discussion about Palestinian topics.

Mai Serhan
Palestinian Writer

The Renegades: a story of Palestinian diaspora:

The story follows the far and fractured journey of a daughter and her ailing father, one with roots in a small village in Acre in 1948 and a reckoning more than 50 years later, in China. It's a story of roots and routes, intergenerational trauma, and the ultimate healing power in narrating the story.

Excerpts for the memoirs:

“I have never been to the place where I am from, but I can imagine it for us, Baba, for you and me. Memory might fail us more than 70 years on, but I have read all the stories you denied me, tinkered with all the words, stored endless images I can now mix and match to piece it all together.”

About The Author
Mai Serhan is a Palestinian/Egyptian writer currently completing her graduate studies in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Her writing has appeared in Oxford Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Rusted Radishes, ArabLit Quarterly and elsewhere. Her upcoming memoir, The Renegades: a story of Palestinian diaspora was a finalist for the Narratively Memoir Prize 2022. The extract published by Narratively was named one of "A Dozen Excellent Personal Essays" by Memoir Monday and a "must-read" by Foreign Bodies, a resource platform for immigration, refugees and diaspora.