Friday Nov 21, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Book.
Out of Gaza tells the story of Dima Mansour, a young Palestinian who suffers hardship growing up in Jordan and Gaza during the Gaza War of 2014, later escaping to be with the man she loves in Belgium, where she is held in a detention center for illegal immigrants. Her harrowing story is told by Katharina Galor, an Israeli Jewish scholar who forms a close and unexpected friendship with Mansour. Despite the profound asymmetry that defines the geopolitical context of their lives—one marked by Palestinian loss and exile, the other by Jewish trauma and persecution—their bond uncovers surprising parallels in their shared experiences of displacement and survival.
As their friendship unfolds, Galor and Mansour come to intimately understand the lasting impact of ethnic cleansing from the Holocaust and the Nakba, and how these pivotal events have shaped their families, identities, and ties to the region. Out of Gaza delves into themes of identity, belonging, and the enduring effects of historical trauma, showing how empathy and resilience can bridge even the deepest divides.
About the Author.
About the Moderator.
Shirine Saad is a Beirut-born journalist, programmer and DJ focusing on culture and social change. They were recently Assistant Professor of the Practice in Arts Journalism and Criticism at Brown University, where they were the Founding Editor of a new multimedia arts journal, MOVEMENTS. They are a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at the European Graduate School (ABD, committee: Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fred Moten, Jasbir Puar, Stefano Harney.)
Their theoretical essay on Arab* feminist and queer art is forthcoming at Routledge; a volume dedicated to the same topic is forthcoming at Saqi books. A Noise Zine on this subject will be released fall 2025, funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Saad has received a research and programming grant from Columbia University’s Incite Institute and a research fellowship from the Women Photographers International Archive. They have worked as Interim Programming Director and Ideas Editor at music organization National Sawdust and runs a DJ learning series for BIPOC women, nonbinary and LGBTQ folks and Hiya Live Sessions, a platform for radical feminist SWANA artists. They have programmed and DJd events for Creative Time, BAM, the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Library, National Sawdust, Soho House, The Rockaway Hotel, Miss Lily’s; launched the Rockaway Beach Reggae Jam and Gyal Tings Soundsystem.
Saad has collaborated with media companies including Artnews, Elle, BRIC, Four Seasons Magazine, CNN, Hyperallergic, Le Figaro, L’Officiel, MTV, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Nowness, The National and Vice. They have interviewed Adonis, Jean Paul Gaultier, Juliette Binoche, Bella Hadid, Marina Abramovic, Kehinde Wiley, Pierre Soulages, Gregory Crewdson, Jean Nouvel, Jim Jarmusch, Marlon James, Mickalene Thomas, Shirin Neshat, Virgil Abloh, Wangechi Mutu and many more. Their first guidebook, BOHO BEIRUT, is sold worldwide; they have also written the 2015 WALLPAPER* guide to Marseille.
Shirine holds degrees from McGill (B.A. in Art History and International Development) and Columbia (M.S. in Magazine Journalism; M.A. in Arts and Culture journalism) Universities.