Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza - Toronto Launch
Join Mayworks and Between the Lines for the launch of Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza, by Haidar Eid, at the United Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil Street Toronto, ON M5T 1N1) on May 24, 2025 at noon.
Banging on the Walls of the Tank is a collection of reflections and analysis written over eighteen years in Gaza by Palestinian academic and activist, Haidar Eid. Providing an insider’s perspective on the blockade of Gaza since 2007, the Israeli attacks in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021, the Great March of Return, and the ongoing genocide committed by the apartheid Israeli state, Eid’s essays examine political alternatives, opportunities for resistance, and prospects for a just peace after more than a century of dispossession.
The event includes a screening of Returning to Zarnouqa, a short film on Palestinian generational displacement, genocide, and the inevitability of return.
The book talk and screening will be followed by a Q&A with the author. Haidar Eid will be joining over Zoom from South Africa.
All Mayworks Festival events are free. Registration required.
Accessibility: ASL Provided. Masks are required. This venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms. For any questions relating to accessibility, please email [email protected]
Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts annually presents new works by a diverse range of artists, who are both workers and activists. We prioritize the participation of artists and audiences from communities facing systemic discrimination. Our programming offers bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. We are actively engaged in a social dialogue that challenges the logics of capitalism, and seeks to reimagine and represent a just future.