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SUMMARY:Iraq\, 20 Years After the War\, From the Viewpoint of Its Creatives
DESCRIPTION:RSVP now\nIraq\, 20 years after the War\, Thursday\, 2 March\, 18:00 CET (12 noon ET/17:00 UK/19:00 Beirut/21:00 Abu Dhabi).  \nSeveral participants in this month’s issue on IRAQ will gather together online to discuss their work and where we are today\, nearly 20 years after the commencement of the Iraq War\, an Anglo-American disaster that befell millions of Iraqis. \nJoining the conversation (so far) are playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak and musician Hardi Kurda in the UK and artist Lahib Jaddo in the US. \n\nThis conversation will take place online\, from 18:00 – 19:00 CET. It will be moderated by Rana Asfour and Malu Halasa.\n\nRSVP now
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SUMMARY:TMR Conversations: Raja Shehadeh & Amal Ghandour
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nPalestinian attorney Raja Shehadeh\, author most recently of We Could Have Been Friends\, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir\, will discuss his latest work\, along with such previous books as Palestinian Walks and Strangers in the House. He is a Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah. Shehadeh is a founder of the pioneering\, nonpartisan human rights organization Al-Haq\, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists\, and the author of several books about international law\, human rights\, and the Middle East. \nAmal Ghandour is the author of This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey into Silence. Since 2009\, she has held the position of Senior Strategy Adviser to Ruwwad al Tanmeyah\, a regional community development initiative that spans Jordan\, Palestine\, Lebanon\, and Egypt. \nThis talk is free to the public. Donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review\, a nonprofit literary arts review in English\, French\, Spanish and soon\, Arabic. Thursday\, the 16th of March\, 18:00 Beirut/Ramallah • 17:00 CET • 12 noon Daylight Standard Time (New York). \nRSVP
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/tmr-conversations-raja-shehadeh-amal-ghandour/
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SUMMARY:The Search for Home: a Markaz Review Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here\n  \nThe Markaz Review invites you to our HOME roundtable conversation featuring six of the writers in the latest issue talking about their essays as we seek to address the meaning of home. Due to climate disaster\, war\, civil strife and economic fallout\, there are more than 65 million refugees\, not to mention the millions of internally displaced migrants in Turkey\, Syria\, Iraq\, Afghanistan\, to name but a few of the countries experiencing upheaval. As senior writer Arie Amaya-Akkermans notes in his essay\, For Those Who Dwell in Tents\, “The tents of refuge are not just a prophetic metaphor\, but a political reality for millions of people.” \nThis discussion includes Yesmine Abida on her essay Nabeul\, Mon Amour on the town’s lost Jewish community; contributing editor Iason Athanasiadis on his 20-year  Odyssey That Forged a Stronger Athenian; Aomar Boum on his brother Mohammed at home in Morocco; TMR’s literary editor Malu Halasa on Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration; and Lushik Lotus Lee on Coming of Age in a Revolution. The roundtable is moderated by TMR’s editor\, Jordan Elgrably. \nThis online event is free to the public; donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review\, a nonprofit that is free to the public\, with zero advertising. \nThursday\, March 23\, at 19:00 CET (2 pm Eastern\, 18:00 UK). \n  \nRSVP Here
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SUMMARY:Sophia Al-Maria's memoir The Girl Who Fell to Earth
DESCRIPTION:email books@themarkaz.org to join this event on Zoom\nMarch 2023 BookGroup Selection is The Girl Who Fell to Earth\, a memoir by Sophia Al-Maria (discussing the book on Sunday\, March 26\, 13 Eastern/18:00 CET).\nAward-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures. Part family saga and part personal quest\, The Girl Who Fell to Earth traces Al-Maria’s journey to make a place for herself in two different worlds. \nWhen Sophia Al-Maria’s mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband’s desert-dwelling Bedouin family in Qatar\, she intends it to be a sort of teenage cultural boot camp. What her mother doesn’t know is that there are some things about growing up that are universal. In Qatar\, Sophia is faced with a new world she’d only imagined as a child. She sets out to find her freedom\, even in the most unlikely of places. \nThe Girl Who Fell to Earth takes readers from the green valleys of the Pacific Northwest to the dunes of the Arabian Gulf and on to the sprawling chaos of Cairo. Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle\, Sophia is haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile: hovering somewhere between two families\, two cultures\, and two worlds. She must make a place for herself—a complex journey that includes finding young love in the Arabian Gulf\, rebellion in Cairo\, and\, finally\, self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai. \nThe Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home.
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