"Timely and clearly written To See In the Dark is a manifesto to solidarity" Stephen Sheehi
co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation "Mirzoeff sharply urges us to divest from a
mere spectatorship to a genocide and insists that we see in relation in solidarity and as an
anti-colonial collective" Simone Browne author of Dark Matters "Mirzoeff argues incisively
for a return to ways of seeing that are grounded in solidarity and resistance" Candice Breitz
video and photography artist To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023
the forces of racial capitalism and settler colonialism have become all too visible in Israel's
genocidal war on Gaza. In To See In the Dark Nicholas Mirzoeff explores how images and
especially video viewed outside Palestine enabled a dramatic switch in public opinion leading
to a global uprising against the genocide. In this groundbreaking analysis he connects the
personal and the political through his own anti-Zionist Jewishness and its histories of
violence. The result is a new collective and anti-colonial way of seeing intersecting
online and embodied experience. Nicholas Mirzoeff is a pioneering figure in the field of
visual culture and has written extensively on Jewishness and Palestine. His books include How
To See The World and The Right to Look . He has written for the Guardian and The Nation .
