58 My Grandfather's Key (Live at Footscray West Writers Fest)

In this special live episode of Season 8, recorded at the Footscray West Writers Fest, Clare and Yves are joined by writer and academic Dr Micaela Sahhar to unlock the vast ephemera and stolen inheritance of the Palestinian diaspora. How do archives and archiving operate as technologies of settler colonialism? Why have Palestinians been disappeared at both ends of the story - both from Nakba and assimilation? How does Micaela’s award-winning book Meet Me at the Jaffa Gate (NewSouth, 2025) provide a counter archive that allows Palestinians to assert authority over their own stories of exile and homecoming? And how can a single key embody a Palestinian past and present in the midst of an ongoing genocide?

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58 My Grandfather's Key (Live at Footscray West Writers Fest) is an episode from Archive Fever by Clare Wright and Yves Rees.

This episode is 56:20 long.

This episode was published on Mar 31, 2026.

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