During his conference, Prof. Al Jallad will be exploring Palestinian poetry as a means of resistance, remembrance and national identity. Drawing on his personal experience, he will be explaining how poetry reflects the suffering of the Palestinian people, from the Nakba in 1948 and up to the present day, including the Naksa in 1967. Three branches of Palestinian literature can be identified: one that arose within Israel, another in the the occupied territories and a third among the Diaspora. Highlighting authors such as Mahmoud Darwish, Fadwa Tuqan and Khaled Juma, themes such as exile, identity, struggle, nostalgia and the role of women are analyzed. Poetry is presented as a witness to the tragedies experienced and also as a symbol of hope, using images like the olive tree, the earth and bread to connect with the lost homeland.

Nader Al Jallad
Nader Al Jallad is an associate professor with the Department of Spanish Literature at the University of Cordoba’s Schools of Philosophy and Letters. He earned his PhD in General Linguistics. Prior to that, he taught classes at the University of Delaware, in Newark, USA.(1998-2001) and at the University of Jordan in Amman, where he also held the position of Vice-Dean of Evaluation and Quality Control with the Schools of Arts (2003-2007). He has worked as a professor of languages (English and Arabic), linguistics, translation and culture in three countries (Spain, Jordan, and the U.S.) for more than 30 years. His research work focuses on the interaction of language and culture, leading him to appear in numerous seminars, conferences and publications of articles, book chapters and books.