Book Launch: Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose’ with Yousef M. Aljamal. 8th October, Irish Writers' Centre. We are honoured to invite you to the launch of a new collection of poetry and prose from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer. The book will be launched by Refaat’s close friend and editor, Yousef M. Alajamal, and hosted by poet and activist Clíodhna Bhreatnach. Dr. Refaat Alareer was a Palestinian writer, poet, translator, university professor and activist from Gaza. On 6th December 2023, he was murdered by a targeted airstrike on his apartment, one of the more than 62,000 Gazans killed by Israeli occupation forces over the last two years. He is perhaps best known as the author of the poem ‘If I Should Die’ written just weeks before his martyrdom. Under the supervision of Refaat’s friend and literary executor Yousef M. Aljamal, OR Books has published a new collection of his poetry and writing. These pieces, some never before published, form a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist; someone whose voice will not be silenced, but rather amplified, by death and will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity and genocide. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb #GazaGenocide