Date/Time
Date(s) - October 2, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
School of Population & Public Health
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Join Palestinian lived theologian Shadia Qubti for an intimate presentation exploring what it means to live between worlds. Through personal storytelling, readings from her own writings, and contemporary Palestinian music and poetry, Qubti will share lived experiences navigating between Nazareth and Vancouver while carrying intergenerational trauma amid ongoing genocide. Using her concept of “emotional jetlag” – living simultaneously across multiple realities and time zones – she’ll weave together personal narrative with voices from Palestinian artists to examine how communities maintain identity, family bonds, and hope amid systems of separation. This is both scholarly reflection and deeply personal testimony, inviting audiences into conversation about displacement, belonging, and the role of art in making sense of impossible circumstances.
Co-sponsored by the Modern Arabic Program and the Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia.
Image: Details of the Intifada dress, Palestine. MOA Collection 3295/8.