Voices From Under the Rubble: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha

SFU Publishing presents the 2025 Jim Douglas Lecture, Voices from Under the Rubble, an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha.

Toha's writing has appeared in New Yorker and the New York Times, and he is the author of two books of poetry, including Forest of Noise, named one of NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2024.

Toha's talk and presentation of his poetry will be followed by a Q&A with him. Moderated by Stephen Collis, poet and Chair of SFU’s English department

Room 1400, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 4N6

Appetizers and a cash bar; live music and book sales

Reception 6 pm; Talk starts at 7 pm (Registration for this event is free)

Mosab Abu Toha will be appearing via Zoom

Our thanks to the Atkins-Douglas Fund, SFU’s Centre for Muslim Studies, Department of English and School for Communications, and Penguin Random House Canada