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SUMMARY:U.S. Book Tour: "Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader" with editors Malu Halasa\, Jordan Elgrably & Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Mala Halasa & Jordan Elgrably on tour for their new anthology\, Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader\, from Seven Stories Press\, with special guests:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A powerful and inspiring testament to the human spirit\, to the resilience of the Palestinian people\, and to their indomitable struggle for liberation.”\n—Nathan Thrall\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama\n\n\n\n\nTour dates and locations:\n\n\n\nJan. 24\, 7 pm (Fri) Politics and Prose\, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW\, Washington\, D.C. 20008\nJan. 30\, 5:15 pm (Thurs) Harvard\, Harvard Divinity School\, 45 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138 RSVP Online\nJan 31\, 5:30 pm (Fri) University of Pennsylvania\, 3451 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19104 (special guest Ahmad Almallah) More info\nFeb. 5\, 5-7 pm (Wed) NYU\, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\, 20 Cooper Square NYC 10003 (special guest Mosab Abu Toha & Lina Mounzer ) RSVP Online\n\n  \nDonations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the book:\n \nAn anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance\, with selections of memoir\, short stories\, essays\, book reviews\, personal narrative\, poetry\, and art. \nIncludes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists. \n\nThe Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is\, above all\, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives\, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them. \nIn times of devastation\, poetry\, literature\, and art are the mediums through which oppressed peoples reveal cherished aspects of their existences and remain defiant in the fight for self-determination. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland\, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres\, so do the Palestinians\, and their struggles and triumphs. \nThe essays\, stories\, poetry\, art and personal narrative collected in Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestinians’ aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of culture’s power and importance during occupation and war. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the editors: \nMALU HALASA\, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review\, is a London-based writer and editor. Her latest book as editor is Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran (Saqi 2023). Her six previous co-edited anthologies include Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline\, with coedited with Zaher Omareen & Nawara Mahfoud; The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design\, with Rana Salam; and the short series: Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images\, with Rosanne Khalaf\, and Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations\, with Maziar Bahari. She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library; a founding editor of Tank Magazine and Editor at Large for Portal 9. As a freelance journalist in London\, she has covered wide-ranging subjects\, from water as occupation in Israel/Palestine to Syrian comics during the present-day conflict. Her books\, exhibitions and lectures chart a changing Middle East. Malu Halasa’s debut novel\, Mother of All Pigs was reviewed by the New York Times as “a microcosmic portrait of … a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.” \n  \n \nJORDAN ELGRABLY is a Franco-American and Moroccan writer and translator\, whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and reviews\, including Apulée\, Salmagundi\, and The Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review\, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). He is the editor of Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights 2024) and co-editor with Malu Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories Press 2024). Based in Montpellier\, France and California.
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