Join us for the first Casa Palestina Book Club, an intimate evening of collective reading, reflection, and conversation.

We’re very happy to launch the Casa Palestina Book Club, a new intimate reading and discussion space hosted at Casa Palestina in Lisbon and curated by the MAQAM team.

The book club brings readers together around books from across the region and its diasporas, creating space for collective reading, reflection, and conversation.

For our first session, facilitated by Nur Turkmani, we will be reading I Can Imagine It For Us by Mai Serhan. The book is a memoir that moves across Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, the UAE, and China. We have chosen it as a starting point for a conversation around memory, family, place, inheritance, and the intimate ways we imagine ourselves and each other across distance.

The session will include a short introduction to the book and writer, followed by collective reading and open discussion. Together, we will move through selected passages, share reflections, and introduce the wider spirit of the book club.

Copies available:
There are 9 physical copies of I Can Imagine It For Us available to buy at MAQAM / Casa Palestina ahead of the session.

Programme:
Introduction to the book club
Introduction to I Can Imagine It For Us
Collective reading
Open discussion