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Join renowned writer and scholar Steven Salaita for an interactive reading and discussion of Amílcar Cabral's text, "National Liberation and Culture" (1970) and its relevance to Palestine today. Amílcar Cabral (1924-1973) was an anti-colonial leader, intellectual, pan-Africanist, and revolutionary poet who led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands against the Portuguese. In “National Liberation and Culture (1970),” Cabral argued for the centrality of culture in the fight against imperialism’s liquidation of a colonized people. Participants will consider the relevance of his claim “if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture” to the ongoing struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

Steven Salaita is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University of Cairo. He is the author of numerous books, among them An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries (Fordham University Press, 2024), Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and most recently, Daughter, Son, Assassin (Common Notions, 2024) a novel about family bonds and betrayal. He writes at stevensalaita.com