Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $45USD).

Step 2: Register for “Memory for Forgetfulness: A Reading Group” here. (Please indicate on the form whether you will be attending online or in-person)

Join Bhakti Shringarpure and Suchitra Vijayan of the Radical Books Collective to read and discuss Mahmoud Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness, a book of prose poetry about the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. This reading group will provide an accessible entrypoint for first-time readers of Darwish as well as poetry in general, while giving participants an opportunity to reflect on the current catastrophe in both Palestine and Lebanon.

Participants will have the option of meeting either online or in-person. In-person participation will be limited to 25, and the NYC address will be shared upon registration. All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project, and participants will be asked to purchase a copy of Memory for Forgetfulness from the W4G x Open Books site, where all proceeds are being donated to a different Gaza initiative each month.

Bhakti Shringarpure is the creative director of the Radical Books Collective, a community and solidarity building project that creates alternative approaches to reading by organizing book clubs, events, podcasts and immersive seminars.

Suchitra Vijayan is the author of Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India (Melville House, 2021) and the founder of the Polis Project.