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Celebrate a century of library programs and service in Mount Pleasant through exploration of local history, community memory, and connection - all month long!
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi will be performing selections from his debut collection "TERROR COUNTER" in conversation with writer & critic Hazem Fahmy.
TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).
Hazem Fahmy is a writer and critic from Cairo. A PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, he runs the literary newsletter wust el-balad, on Substack. He is the author of three chapbooks: Red//Jild//Prayer (2017) from Diode Editions, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo (2022) from Half-Mystic Press, and At the Gates (2023) from Akashik Books’ New-Generation African Poets series. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2020, The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Mubi Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna.
FREE copies of "TERROR COUNTER" will be available for attendees while supplies last. There is a limited number of free books and distribution will be first-come first-served.
Additional copies of "TERROR COUNTER" will be available for purchase from Middle East Books & More.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Author Talk |
