by Ida Börjel
Wednesday 7 May 2025
7-9pm

Red Anemone by Ida Börjel

FIVE INVITED GUESTS
Nimat Hasan – poetry
Salman Nawati – oud
Bissan Edwan – poetry
Tina Quartey – frame drum
Petra Mölstad reads Jasim Mohamed’s translations from Arabic.

Ida Börjel, poet and translator, lives in Malmö. Red Anemone is a documentary poem from inside Palestine, in which tentative round-table discussions, life stories and after-talk with chance encounters in the street come together in a polyphonic swirl. The questions revolve around liberation from oppression, the conditions of poetry and translation as an act of resistance: in Red Anemone, people whose lives and literature are conditioned by the violence of the occupation speak. The book also contains the poet’s listening for words in the darkness of the night.

Nimat Hasan, Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, born in 1980 in Rafah, thereafter living in Deir al-Balah. Also active as a social worker. Her new poems from inside Gaza are regularly translated by Jasim Mohamed.

Salman Nawati, artist from Gaza, living in Tanum. Member of Hawaf Collective and one of the founders of the virtual Sahab Museum where Gaza’s art and cultural heritage is showcased using VR technology.

Bissan Edwan, journalist/publisher/poet. Born in Libya to Palestinian parents. Imprisoned and deported from Egypt in 2020. Current ICORN resident in Lund.

Tina Quartey, a percussion pioneer. Her main instruments are congas, shekeré, berimbau, udu and batá, with the addition of various cymbals, gongs, bells, singing bowls and other delightful sounds.

Petra Mölstad, poet, lives in Malmö. Debuted in 2013 with the poetry collection Införsel by Förlaget Glas. Her fourth book Landskapskynnen was published in 2024 by Lejd förlag.

Jasim Mohamed, poet and translator, lives in Uppsala. His translations of poetry from Gaza can be read in Ord & Bild’s Prisma Palestina and 20-TAL’s theme issue Resistance and Humanity.

Thanks to Albert Bonniers förlag and designer Nina Ulmaja.