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.

A photo of Peter, a man with light skin brown hair and dark eyes. He wears a black shirt and a grey blazer

Artist Events

A pitch black sphere sat in a dark space. It spot lit by lights and is so black it appears to be a void in space.

15 November 2026, 16:15

In the Time of Intifada: From Palestine to the Planetary

Peter Makhlouf Sherena Razek

How does Palestinian anticolonial resistance struggle against the colonisation of our concept of time?

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 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

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