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Life and Freedom for Ashraf Fayadh

With Natalie Diaz, Ru Freeman, Lawrence Joseph, Dina Omar, Dread Scott, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell

PEN American Center and the Brooklyn Museum present a reading of selected poems and others texts in support of Palestinian poet and art curator Ashraf Fayadh, who was sentenced to death by a Saudi court on November 17, 2015 for apostasy. We are joining forces with the International Literature Festival Berlin (ILB) in their call for all individuals, institutions, schools, and media outlets that care about justice and freedom to participate in a worldwide reading to press the U.K. and U.S. governments to intervene on behalf of Ashraf Fayadh, free expression, and the defense of human rights.

Ashraf Fayadh is a Palestinian poet, artist, and curator who faces a sentence of death by beheading for the charge of apostasy. The charges against him stem from complaints relating to supposed atheistic and blasphemous themes in his poetry collection Instructions Within, as well as a personal altercation with a man who reported him to Saudi Arabia’s religious authorities. Fayadh’s poems are ruminations about his life as a Palestinian refugee, as well as cultural and philosophical issues. The court case against him has dragged on for nearly two years, and he has now been sentenced to death simply for exercising his fundamental human right to free expression. Fayadh has been given 30 days to appeal the death sentence against him, a deadline that is rapidly approaching.

Selected poems and other texts will be read in both English and Arabic.











When: Thu., Jan. 14, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.)
718-638-5000
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With Natalie Diaz, Ru Freeman, Lawrence Joseph, Dina Omar, Dread Scott, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell

PEN American Center and the Brooklyn Museum present a reading of selected poems and others texts in support of Palestinian poet and art curator Ashraf Fayadh, who was sentenced to death by a Saudi court on November 17, 2015 for apostasy. We are joining forces with the International Literature Festival Berlin (ILB) in their call for all individuals, institutions, schools, and media outlets that care about justice and freedom to participate in a worldwide reading to press the U.K. and U.S. governments to intervene on behalf of Ashraf Fayadh, free expression, and the defense of human rights.

Ashraf Fayadh is a Palestinian poet, artist, and curator who faces a sentence of death by beheading for the charge of apostasy. The charges against him stem from complaints relating to supposed atheistic and blasphemous themes in his poetry collection Instructions Within, as well as a personal altercation with a man who reported him to Saudi Arabia’s religious authorities. Fayadh’s poems are ruminations about his life as a Palestinian refugee, as well as cultural and philosophical issues. The court case against him has dragged on for nearly two years, and he has now been sentenced to death simply for exercising his fundamental human right to free expression. Fayadh has been given 30 days to appeal the death sentence against him, a deadline that is rapidly approaching.

Selected poems and other texts will be read in both English and Arabic.

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