Palestine Mapped

Palestine Mapped is a publication, mapping historic Palestine from the earliest record through the early twenty-first century.

From the intricate research culminating in this work, Suárez will explore the mapping of Palestine both as etched on the map and as etched in the collective Western ‘hard-wiring’, through an illustrated talk. 

We will begin with a challenge to modern presumptions of ‘personhood’ in relation to the nation-state, and a review of the mapping of the region, beginning with the earliest extant record, the ancient Greeks and Romans. The medieval period brings both secular and religious mapping of Palestine, and with the Reformation, the proto-Zionism that leads to the fateful nineteenth century. A principal focus will be the way geographic thought has reflected, and furthered, the rise of Zionism. The talk will conclude with a look at how the movement for Palestinian liberation might be more powerful by moving beyond unwittingly adopted ethno-geographic frameworks.

Following the presentation, signed copies of the book will be available in our Makataba.

Doors open at 5.30pm; event starts at 6pm and finishes at 8pm.