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Mahmoud Alshaer

Mahmoud M Alshaer is a writer, poet, and editor-in-chief of 28 Magazine as well as founder and head curator of 28 Gallery in Rafah, Palestine. Alshaer coordinated cultural projects in collaboration with visual artists and writers for the publishing house Khuta, for Al-Ghussein House in Gaza City (where he was cultural program coordinator), for Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation Palestine, and for Goethe-Institut Ramallah. He was co-curator of the New Alphabet School at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019–22) where he also co-edited (with Olga Schubert, Gigi Argyropoulou, an Rahul Gudipudi) edition #22 of DNA, the HKW’s publication series released adjacent to the program. He contributed to the 12th Berlin Biennial (2023) and was also part of two exhibitions by the Quattan Foundation in Ramallah (Instant Modernism, 2023 and The ­ Valley Trail, 2021). From the beginning of the ­ongoing war in Gaza, he has been working at the field hospital of the International Medical Corps (IMC) in ­Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.

A head and shoulders photo man with brown skin and dark brown eyes and hair. He has thick eyebrows and a short groomed beared and wears a red polo shirt. He is oriented to the camera with his head upturned, his other hand tugs his collar in what could be anxiety. Behind him is a web of images, articles, and papers connected by strings.

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A head and shoulders photo man with brown skin and dark brown eyes and hair. He has thick eyebrows and a short groomed beared and wears a red polo shirt. He is oriented to the camera with his head upturned, his other hand tugs his collar in what could be anxiety. Behind him is a web of images, articles, and papers connected by strings.
14 November 2026, 19:30

I Am Still Alive

Mahmoud Alshaer

A poetry reading by Mahmoud Alshaer, a central figure in Gaza’s cultural life and author of I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza. His poetry serves as a vital affirmation of presence and testimony of everyday life in Gaza in a time of genocide.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
A painting of geometric shapes in blue, green, black, and yellow. A silhouetted yellow head floats in the foreground.
13 November 2026, 13:00

Writing Workshop: A Year on the Abyss of Genocide

Mahmoud Alshaer

For this workshop,  Writer and poet Mahmoud Alshaer invites people to share in his compositional method: a daily practice in which he asks what it means to write under different temporal regimes—the present, during the genocide, and during the occupation.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
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 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