Guli Dolev-Hashiloni and Tamar Raphael in conversation with Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus on the possibility of imagining a future—who ought to imagine it, and what role literature plays in this process. In particular, they discuss literature written from the perspective of those in whose name a future is being denied, while another is violently enforced. What is the role of literature on the side of the perpetrators?

Guli Dolev-Hashiloni is an author born in Tel Aviv living in Berlin since 2021. His work, exploring themes of migration and resilience, reflect on political themes and were published in various journals and anthologies. His experience in the NGO world was also the background for his novel Tsulul (Pardes Publishing, 2025), taking place in a refugee aid centre. Dolev-Hashiloni is a PhD candidate at the Technical University in Berlin focusing on the aftermath of the Holocaust, and he translates literature and prose from German and Yiddish to Hebrew.

Tamar Raphael is an Israeli writer based in Berlin. Her debut novel, There Were Two with Nothing to Do (2024), was widely praised by critics and received an honorable mention from the Brener Award for debut fiction. Her poetry collection, Receding Songs (2021), received the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Poets. She has published poems and short stories in a range of literary magazines and journals, including Hava Lehaba, Granta Israel and The Diasporist. She is a MacDowell fellow and a member of Die Sammlung—a collective for Jewish writers in Berlin—and is currently working on her second novel.

Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus is an Israeli-born, Berlin-based author and translator. He has published poetry and prose in Hebrew and German, as well as op-eds in newspapers such as taz, Süddeutsche Zeitung and der Freitag. His debut novel Birobidschan (2023) was nominated for the German Book Prize. His memoir-cum-essay Keinheimisch (2025) is a critique of Zionism and German memory culture from a Jewish Israeli perspective. His second novel, Gavdos, is forthcoming in autumn 2026.

An evening of readings and conversations about possible future scenarios “between the river and the sea,” curated by Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Katharine Halls, and Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus.

The Event will be held in English.