"Palestina, the Narrow Land" shows us an intimate portrait of a land where pain, injustice and resilience are all intertwined. Lecumberri’s chronicles leave no room for optimism, yet their irresistible authenticity is moving in an era marked by opaque information, radicalization and suspicion.

As for ”Palestinian Childhood and Survival: Towards the end of nightmares”, by Fermín Aparicio Sáez, it is a book of stories about the hopes and dreams of children in a place where it frankly seems quite difficult to envision a bright future. However, even in the worst of circumstances, there is a Palestine that continues to dream about another possible world. 

The presentation of this event will include participation by the authors, as well as Jamil Mahmoud Abou Saada, director of the General Union of Palestinian Communities in Europe. Presented and moderated by Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s Culture and International Relations Coordinator. The event can be watched live on our YouTube channel. 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Beatriz Lecumberri
She has been a correspondent in Brazil, Venezuela and France for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2002. From 2014 to 2019, she was a freelance journalist in Jerusalem for media outlets that included SER, Radio France Internationale (RFI), Proceso, La Nación, El Confidencial and El País. She authored the book “La revolución sentimental. Viaje periodístico por la Venezuela de Chávez” (“The Sentimental Revolution: A journalist’s tour through Chavez’s Venezuela”), and co-directed “Condenadas en Gaza” (“Condemned in Gaza”), a documentary about sick Palestinian women that has won awards at several Spanish and international festivals. She currently lives in Madrid and works for the newspaper El País. Since the war broke out in Gaza in October 2023, she has had numerous reports published about the daily lives of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. These articles have won awards such as the second Chaves Nogales International Prize of 2025 and the EIT Food Journalism Prize of 2025. 

Fermín Aparicio Sáez 
Fermín Aparicio lives in Cadiz and is a regular contributor to digital media as a columnist. In 2014, he coordinated the publication of the book “Sin Comillas” (“No Quotation Marks”) by the publisher Los libros de Umsaloua. In 2023, the book “Boca a boca, el hilo de las historias” (“Word of Mouth: the Thread of Stories”) was published by Q-Book. In 2024, he published a digital compilation of children’s drawings titled “Palestina a través de los ojos de niños y niñas” (“Palestine Through the Eyes of Children”).