Interviews, podcasts, panels and hosting events
Interviews, hosting events, panels, podcasts and media appearances on identity, belonging, leadership, Ethiopian Judaism, literature and Israeli society.
Fentay Mahart-Elmo is an author, lecturer, and identity-based leadership strategic consultant. Her professional experience combines public and international activities, work with diverse audiences and deep thinking about identity, belonging, representation and leadership. In her work she combines a personal life story, professional experience and public thinking around the questions that shape people, communities and organizations: who we are, what we belong to, and how roots, memory and life experience become a source of voice, presence and influence.
In-depth sessions on identity, memory, roots and personal voice
Some stories don’t begin the day they are written. They are born much earlier – in the silences of a home, in the memories passed down between generations, in the stones we carried along the way, and in a voice that was waiting for the moment when it could be fully said.
In the world of literature and culture of Fentay, Fentay Maharat-Alamu invites human and communal discourse and connection where identity is not seen as a wound to be hidden, but as a source of depth, belonging and strength.
through the book “scarred stone”, cultural lectures, prayer meetings, personal narrative workshops and in-depth meetings, Fentay invites audiences to re-encounter their story – not out of weakness, but out of courage, memory and presence.
This is an opportunity for a discourse of people, communities, readers and cultural bodies who wish to talk about roots, home, voice, identity and the ability to turn life’s journey into a language of meaning.
Lecturer, writer and strategic consultant for identity-based leadership. Accompanying organizations, managers and communities in a process that transforms identity, roots and life experience from a source of concealment or friction - to a source of presence, belonging, leadership and impact.
For audiences looking for more than a regular lecture. Not just inspiring content, but a meeting that leaves behind conversation, thought, memory and inner movement.
Encounters around the book "Scarred Stone", the story behind it, the emotional world from which it was born and the questions it seeks to open: how memory shapes identity, how scars become language, how women transfer strength, faith and memory from generation to generation - and how a private story can carry a universal echo within it.
Meetings about journey, home, memory and community - from the story of the emigration from Ethiopia, the holiday of the Sigd, the longing for Jerusalem and the possibility of building a sense of home in a diverse and changing society. This is a meeting that expands a deep community story into a broad Israeli conversation about belonging, hope, memory and building a common home.
Meetings dealing with personal voice, presence and influence - and how women can bring the strengths they carry with them: depth, listening, human sensitivity, broad vision and the ability to hold complexity. It is an invitation to connected leadership: not imitating existing models of power, but bringing voice, value and presence from deep inner connection.
Meetings around the holiday of the mosque, remembrance, longing for Jerusalem, Israeli identity and belonging. The meetings do not present the mosque only as a holiday of one community, but as a broad human story about longing for home, faith, memory and the ability to build a common "home".
In-depth workshops based on writing, memory, roots and personal voice. The workshops allow the participants to meet their story anew, identify the stones they carried along the way, and examine how life experiences can be transformed into a language of meaning, presence and power.
In a fast, noisy and fragmented world, many people are searching anew for a language that will allow them to understand who they are, where they came from, what shaped them – and how all of this can become a source of strength and not a burden.
Literature and culture make it possible to touch on these questions without reducing them to a slogan. They open a discourse in which it is possible to talk about pain without being frightened by it, about roots without turning them into nostalgia, and about identity without imprisoning it in a narrow definition.
Fantai’s meetings are born out of this place. They connect a personal story, a literary work, intergenerational memory and broad questions of belonging, voice and presence.
Fentay Maharat-Alamu brings to the stage a rare combination of a personal life story, literary writing, public and international experience and a deep understanding of identity, memory and belonging.
She does not tell a story just to excite.
She uses the story to open up a language.
A language that allows people to see themselves anew.
A language that allows communities to talk about roots without remaining in the past.
A language that allows women and wider audiences to meet their voice not as a luxury – but as a source of presence, freedom and influence.
The audience leaves the meetings with a deeper sense of connection to their personal and communal story, with a new look at memory, roots and scars, and with an understanding that the past is not only what happened to us – but also the raw material from which meaning, voice and path can be built.
These are meetings designed not only to inspire, but to open a conversation that will continue after them: at home, in the community, in the library, in an organization or within the person himself.
Yes absolutely, each of the lectures can be held as a one-time lecture, and it can also be expanded into an in-depth meeting, a workshop or a process adapted to the audience.
Such an extension can include a guided conversation, questions and answers, working with texts, writing a personal narrative, processing around memory and roots, or building a community place for a conversation about identity and belonging.
Fentay Maharat-Alamu's debut novel returns to the world of the women of the House of Israel in Ethiopia - to roots, memory, scars and female strength. Leave details to receive first updates on the release of the book, pre-purchase, premium edition and launch events.
