Book Launch: Refaat Alareer's 'If I Must Die: Poetry & Prose' with Yousef M. Aljamal
Schedule
Wed Oct 08 2025 at 06:45 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Irish Writers Centre | Dublin, DN
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to invite you to the launch of a new collection of poetry and prose from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer. The book will be launched by Refaat’s close friend and editor, Yousef M. Alajamal, and hosted by poet and activist Clíodhna Bhreatnach.
When: Wednesday 8th October, 6.45pm
Where: Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Sq North, Dublin 1
Entry: Free, Limited Spaces
Dr. Refaat Alareer was a Palestinian writer, poet, translator, university professor and activist from Gaza. On 6th December 2023, he was murdered by a targeted airstrike on his apartment, one of the more than 65,000 Gazans killed by Israeli occupation forces over the last two years. He is perhaps best known as the author of the poem 'If I Should Die' written just weeks before his martyrdom.
Under the supervision of Refaat’s friend and literary executor Yousef M. Aljamal, OR Books has published a new collection of his poetry and writing. These pieces, some never before published, form a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist; someone whose voice will not be silenced, but rather amplified, by death and will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity and genocide.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Praise for the book
“As versatile as it is urgent… a beacon of light in our darkened world.”
—World Literature Today
“Fragments of a visionary's blueprint for liberation.”
—Middle East Eye
“The 'Voice of Gaza' lives on.”
—New Arab
“Remarkable . . . a tragic document of genocide, and a beacon of hope for a Palestinian future.”
—The Morning Star
Hosted by the Dublin branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with thanks to the Irish Writers’ Centre.
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Where is it happening?
Irish Writers Centre, 18 Parnell Square North, Dublin, County Dublin, D01 T3V8, IrelandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
