
Nadia Mansour: The Legacy from Palestine
Nadia Mansour reads from her essay on Danish-Palestinian identity and family history, followed by dialogue about the unspoken in personal narratives.
Nadia Mansour (born 1983 in Lebanon) is a Danish-Palestinian researcher, writer and speaker with a PhD in multicultural literature from VIA University College in Aarhus. She grew up in the Vollsmose district of Odense and has explored questions of minority representation, cultural encounter and identity through her research, essays and her company CultureWays. In 2020 she received the Klods Hans Prize from IBBY Denmark for her doctoral work on multicultural texts in Danish-language education. Her essay "Ikke et ord om Falastin" appears in the 2025 anthology Palæstinenseren (Gads Forlag), which sold out before publication.
Nadia Mansour performed at FOF Copenhagen with a lecture event about identity and Palestinian heritage in conversation with her daughter Aisha Mansour Ebsen.
Nadia Mansour gave a lecture at Engelsholm Folk High School about her life in Vollsmose, honor and the consequences of choosing an independent life.
The essay collection The Palestinian with Nadia Mansour's contribution was published by Gads Publishing on February 26, 2025 and was sold out before publication.
Nadia Mansour is co-author of an upcoming chapter on intercultural pedagogy in a Routledge volume on Nordic multicultural societies.