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Amirah Silmi

Links
Link to Amirah's writing Link to Amirah's page on Academia.edu

What we wrote when Amirah took part in Episode 11, 2024:

Amirah Silmi teaches and writes in the fields of anticolonial and revolutionary writing, as well as in the history of women’s and feminist movements.

Amirah with curly bobbed hair and round earrings smiles directly at the camera.

Artist Events

A brightly lit landscape photo. In the foreground there’s a coniferous tree covered in pine cones. Beyond that there is a sparse landscape covered in shrubs and conifers. In the distance a city is visible, the city is made up of identical condominiums and tower blocks, with sky scrapers at the skyline jutting into a grey-blue sky.
12 November 2026, 10:30

A Conference of Butterflies

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Amirah Silmi Françoise Vergès Sherena Razek Zoé Samudzi Avery F. Gordon 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
At the edge of a roadside stand a group of 3 people. A person dressed in black robes is being filmed by one person and is talking to the camera. Another person stands next to them listening. To the left of the group is the back of a van heavily loaded with personal belongings including laundry bags, chairs, cooking pot, plastic water bottle & oil.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

For Ever Gaza

Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri Françoise Vergès Majdal Nateel Mahmoud Alshaer Amirah Silmi Nicholas Mirzoeff Peter Makhlouf

An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Stone building with balcony and steps in Ramallah
Thurs 12 & Thurs 19 November

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Collaboration

Rene Gabri Ayreen Anastas Michel Khleifi Amirah Silmi

Connecting with friends in Palestine, in spite of the borders, states, infrastructured violence that tried to keep us apart, friends assembling in Ramallah will contribute online to The Conference of Butterflies, and organise their own mini-Episode in person.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas