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SUMMARY:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0\, a literary salon
DESCRIPTION:Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nBased on ethnographic research in Ramallah (Palestine)\, Amman (Jordan)\, and Beirut (Lebanon)\, Filling the Head reveals how youths in these cities have maneuvered the challenges of making music while also navigating shifting geopolitical landscapes. Through these everyday experiences of being moved by music or ideas\, Rayya El Zein explores how ordinary patterns of motion and emotion provide a space for political engagement when spectacular political movements like protests\, strikes\, or revolutions feel far away\, forced\, or otherwise impossible. In contrast to existing narratives that equate rap with popular political resistance against oppressive regimes\, she argues instead for affective engagement through istifzaz―provocation or surprise―as well as yearning. Within this avant-garde genre\, there is no design to reach the masses with a political message; in fact\, as El Zein demonstrates\, the refusal of artists to confine their lyrical or musical experimentation to an ethos of resistance creates an aesthetic whose lack of singular politics defines it. \n\n\n\nHummingbirds is a literary salon curated by the87press aiming to hold space for authors and interlocutors to have conversations about recently published work. This iteration charts a new thread in that conversation which aims to bring academic publishing to a community audience. \n\n\n\nHost: Azad Ashim Sharma\, Founding Director of the87press. \n\n\n\nInterlocutor: Alia Al Ghussain \n\n\n\nAuthor: Rayya El Zein \n\n\n\nTICKETS CAN BE BOOKED HERE:  \n\n\nRegister on EventbriteShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
URL:https://housmans.com/event/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-7-0-a-literary-salon/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event
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SUMMARY:HOUSMANS x FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION
DESCRIPTION:Reclaiming The Public Space: Community Centres as Hubs of Solidarity & Action\n\n\n\n\n\nAs part of the FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION (F.O.U.L) we welcome a series of thinkers and activists whose praxis is rooted community organising.  \n\n\n\nTime is incorporated in a consumerist manner putting life in a private bubble shaped in the next viral trend. Public space is gradually lost under the dismantling of communities and broken social bonds. Community centers are one of the few remaining grounds of unmediated direct communication and social creation. The need to preserve them is not a necessity but a shout of solidarity and fraternity in a rapidly dehumanising individualistic world. \n\n\n\nWe call everyone to share their experience about community centers and interconnect. With comrades from TRAs and community centers in Southwark\, Dashwood community center (Thamesmead Housing Action) and Pamela and Malo from Fortaleza Latina and TFFB (Tottenham Family Fight Back) \n\n\n\nThis is a free event but please RSVP below.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
URL:https://housmans.com/event/housmans-x-festival-of-urban-liberation/
CATEGORIES:Discussion group,In Store
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