• LABOUR OF LISTENING by Haytham el-Wardany
  • LABOUR OF LISTENING by Haytham el-Wardany

LABOUR OF LISTENING by Haytham el-Wardany

A5, 8 pages, Black & white printing, Unbound, Softcover, Edition of 100, 2026

An early version of this text was read at “Politics of Listening” - an iteration of the public program at the Italian Pavilion during the 2024 Venice Biennale. 

 “The dead. They have a plan. And their plan is simple. It is called Sumoud صمود. To stand fast and start all over again. The dead. They direct us to the open graves, desecrated by bulldozers. A severed hand. A mutilated tongue. A stained truth, beside a suitcase of books. The dead. They are hungry, and they have a plan. Their plan is to summon us to the soil. Where they are not buried anymore. And insist that we stand fast, and start from there, all over again. Haven’t written to you for a while. But you crossed my mind today. My earache made me think of you. It is a pain that has worsened since the genocide in Gaza غزة began.”

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CUTT Press

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