kilmé talks with Loaay Wattad
Kilmé is a monthly talk series dedicated to Palestinian artists, intellectuals, and academics; a platform to present their work and speak about subjects that are important to them. Kilmé means word in Arabic. The organizers are dedicated to presenting Palestinian voices in all of their diversity and creativity, thus contributing to the cultural landscape of Berlin, a city with the largest Palestinian population in Europe.
In the February issue of kilmé talks, Loaay Wattad will be the guest. The evening will be moderated by Tyme Khleifi and Michael Barenboim.
Loaay Wattad
Loaay Wattad is a scholar, writer, and translator specialising in Palestinian and Israeli children’s literature. He is a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and an EUME fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien. His research focuses on political imagination, fantasy and war in children’s literature, and he is currently working on an academic research book on the political fairy tale, with a particular focus on Palestinian reinterpretations of Little Red Riding Hood. He has also published the children’s book Salman the Pirate Looks for Shirts.
