You are kindly invited to a conversation about Palestine, where our guests will talk about its complicated and traumatic history, the intertwined historical relations between Palestine and Yugoslavia, the Non-Aligned Movement and its solidarity with Palestine, the genocide taking place in Gaza, on how the Palestinians themselves experience more than 70 years of occupation of their land, and whether there is any hope for peace in the region.

The conversation will take place on Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 18:00 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova and is a prelude to the exhibition Constellations of Multiple Wishes: Along the Eastern Horizon, which will open on 23 May 2024.

With the participation of Majd Nasrallah and Žiga Smolič, moderated by Bojana Piškur (MG+MSUM).

Majd Nasrallah is a political activist, cultural organizer, researcher, and curator from Qalansuwa, the Triangle area in Palestine. He focuses on popular education, grassroots political formation, and critical cultural production. Majd holds a B.A in International Law and Human Rights from Bard College, and has completed several educational courses at Columbia University, SciencesPo, Florestan Fernandes National School, Università della Svizzera Italiana, and University of Ideas - Cittadellarte. Currently, he’s in residency at MSU Zagreb.

Žiga Smolič works as a young researcher and assistant at the Department of History (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), where he is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation on Yugoslav political affirmation in the Middle East during the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, he pays particular attention to the question of Yugoslavia's relations with Egypt, Iraq and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, through the prism of solidarity practices and political friendship. He previously worked as a journalist at Radio Student for a several years, where he focused on reporting on the events in the Global South. In 2019 he obtained a Master's degree on the Shia armed rebellion.