“We feel the absence of many Palestinian voices, writers, who have been massacred during these three years,” began the Palestinian poet Mohamad Bitari before reciting two texts, in Arabic and Spanish, about his mother – our mothers – and his grandmother – our grandmothers. That is to say: about memory. Bitari was born in the Yarnouk refugee camp in Syria because his family fled Nazareth during the Nakba in 1948, when the State of Israel was founded. He studied Hispanic Philology in Damascus and went into exile to Barcelona after persecution by the Syrian government for his journalistic work critical of the government of Bashar el-Assad. Now he writes, translates, and has a publishing house, Éter Edicions. It is a sample of Palestinian culture, what happens in Palestine or wherever Palestinians live outside their land, around the world.
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