You are kindly invited to a lecture by Toufic Haddad on Thursday, 19 June 2025, at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM.

The Gaza genocide emerges from the toxic cocktail of Zionist colonial savagery nested in the chaos of contemporary post-neoliberal dystopias and hyperimperialism.

The lecture Through the Gaza Looking Glass. On Zombies, Vultures, Genocide and Other Post-Liberal Dystopias explores how the genocide provides a window into a callous and cowardly new world order where shifting dynamics in capital accumulation and inter-imperial competition combine with technological advances and fascist populism. Gaza is also the graveyard of repressed history and hubris, of which there is no shortage. The accelerating “morbid symptoms” of the era starkly capture how humanity - and the lives of a great many humans in Palestine, the region and the world - now depends not only on ending the genocide but defeating the forces that perpetuate it.

The lecture will be in English.

Toufic Haddad is a Palestinian American academic, activist and author. He has worked in various capacities across Palestine as a journalist, researcher, editor, and publisher, most recently directing the Kenyon Institute - the Council for British Research in the Levant's Jerusalem Branch. His 2016 book Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory explores the role of neoliberalism and the World Bank during the so called “peace process.”