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Sep 2024
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Kalam Live from Zita! With Bernt Hermele...

Edgar Mannheimer
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After a screening of the documentary Where the Olive Trees Wheep Edgar sits with the Swedish writer Bernt Hermele and the Palestinian-French curator of books, Sarah Dahman Hallgren for a conversation about trauma and resistance.

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