On September 24, a federal judge ruled that the University of Texas at Austin had acted within its rights when it canceled a pro-Palestinian protest in April 2024 and later suspended one of its student organizers. Twelve days later, on October 6, Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza was named a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.
If the three years since the events of October 7, 2023, have been one long court proceeding, argued on college campuses and in the press, whom is Joudah’s new “exhibit” meant to persuade?
