Peter Makhlouf

Peter Makhlouf writes on poetry, poetics and critical theory between Palestine and Germany. His work has appeared in Res, Middle Eastern Literatures, Jerusalem Quarterly, and Comparative Literature Studies, in addition to public fora including Jewish Currents, boundary2online and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Artist Events

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15 November 2026, 16:15

Time as an Object of Struggle in Palestinian Anticolonialism

Nasser Abourahme Peter Makhlouf

How do Palestinians rethink the cosmologies of time within which they organise their struggle—and the clock counting down on Israel’s endgame.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas

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12 November 2026, 10:30

A Conference of Butterflies

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Nasser Abourahme Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Avery F. Gordon Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors

This edition of the Conference of Butterflies asks contributors to share words, notions, practices which nourish or obstruct our movements from perceiving and abolishing all the forces, forms, institutions maintaining the planetary regime of ongoing Nakba.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas

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