Sami Khatib will give an open lecture in the KHiO Library, within the KHiO Art Academy thematic course "Walter Benjamin in Palestine". Walter Benjamin never did go to Palestine. Despite frequent invitations from his friend Gershom Scholem, who emigrated there in 1923, and despite the rapidly deteriorating situation for European Jews in the 1930s, he never abandoned whatever ambivalence prevented him from making a decision he often contemplated. Read more about the talk on www.artacademycalendar.khio.no