S7, E1: Forest of Noise with Mosab Abu Toha

S7, E1: Forest of Noise with Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise
With Mosab Abu Toha

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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We were delighted to have Mosab Abu Toha join us in January. Mosab is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer and essayist from Gaza. He founded the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which was destroyed during the 2023/25 assault. He hopes to be able to rebuild it. Mosab read from his latest remarkable and critically acclaimed poetry book, Forest of Noise, and discussed the ongoing situation in Gaza and what the future may hold. Mosab is currently living in the United States. 

After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house in November 2023, Mosab and his family fled for their safety. They obtained a visa to leave Gaza, and on their journey to Rafah, Mosab (like so many men in Gaza) was detained and tortured by the Israeli Military. He is currently living in the United States. 

Mosab has 133K followers on Instagram, where he shares his poetry and regularly updates about the conditions in Gaza, the ongoing attacks and killings. He also calls out the complicity and failure of so many to work for an end to the War on Gaza and unquestioning support of Israel. 

His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award and the Walcott Poetry Prize. 

His second book — the first to be published in the UK, Forest of Noise (available through Amos webshop) has received numerous plaudits and was described as ‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ by Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist, Ocean Vuong.

Mosab recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his ‘Letter from Gaza’ columns for The New Yorker.

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