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SUMMARY:Hadiya Hassein: Waiting for the Past
DESCRIPTION:April 2023 BookGroup Selection is Waiting for the Past\, a novel by Hadiya Hussein\, translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine\nHadiya Hussein’s poignant novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein’s brutal reign\, the novel follows Narjis\, a young Iraqi woman\, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she loves. Yusef\, suspected by the regime of being a dissident\, has disappeared–presumably either imprisoned or executed. On her journey\, Narjis receives shelter from a Kurdish family who welcome her into their home where she meets Umm Hani\, an older woman who is searching for her long-lost son. Together they form a bond\, and Narjis comes to understand the depth of loss and grief of those around her. At the same time\, she is introduced to the warm hospitality of the Kurdish community\, settling into their everyday lives\, and embracing their customs. Barbara Romaine’s translation skillfully renders this complex\, layered story\, giving readers a stark yet beautiful portrait of contemporary Iraq. \nWe’ll discuss this novel on Sunday\, May 7\, at 12 pm Eastern. 
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/hadiya-hassein-waiting-for-the-past/
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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.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/sophia-al-marias-memoir-the-girl-who-fell-to-earth/
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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
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/the-search-for-home-a-markaz-review-roundtable/
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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/oldsite/event/tmr-conversations-raja-shehadeh-amal-ghandour/
LOCATION:Online
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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
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/iraq-20-years-after-the-war-from-the-viewpoint-of-its-creatives/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Négar Djavadi's Disoriental\, Sunday\, Feb. 26\, 12 noon Eastern
DESCRIPTION:February 2023 BookGroup Selection is Disoriental\, the novel by Négar Djavadi.\n  \n“Our memories select\, eliminate\, exaggerate\, minimize\, glorify\, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality.” —Négar Djavadi \n  \nThe story of a young girl and her family\, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history. \nKimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five\, with a new life and the prospect of a child\, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors\, which reach her in unstoppable\, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic\, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her\, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk\, with his harem of fifty-two wives\, and her parents\, Darius and Sara\, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them. \nIn this high-spirited\, kaleidoscopic story\, key moments of Iranian history\, politics\, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimiâ herself—punk-rock aficionado\, storyteller extraordinaire\, a Scheherazade of our time\, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”—who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/negar-djavadis-disoriental-sunday-feb-26-1-pm-eastern/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:We Read/Discuss Out of Mesopotamia\, the novel by Salar Abdoh\, and Meet the Author
DESCRIPTION:THE JANUARY BOOKGROUP SELECTION IS is Out of Mesopotamia\, by Salar Abdoh (no bookgroup meeting in December). The discussion takes place\, with the author\, on Sunday\, January 29\, 2023\, 1 pm Eastern/19:00 CET. \n“Imagine getting into Iraq and Syria as an observer of the war on ISIS\, and yet very soon after you’ve been close enough to RPGs to smell the explosion and feel the ground shake\, you find yourself back in your old life\, giving literary readings at swank bookstores in cities at peace\, or attending highbrow academic conferences where nobody’s dying\, except perhaps bored audience members. Juxtaposing the two realities — one savage and ridiculous\, the other sane and predictable — is what the author is after in Out of Mesopotamia.” —Jessica Proett\, The Markaz Review \nTo join the group\, email books@themarkaz.org. \n  \nSalar Abdoh is an Iranian novelist and essayist who divides much of his time between New York and Tehran. He is the author of the novels Poet Game (2000)\, Opium (2004)\, Tehran At Twilight (2014)\, and Out of Mesopotamia (2020) and the editor and translator of the anthology Tehran Noir (2014). He also teaches in the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York at the City University of New York. Abdoh seeks to help Iran re-engage with the Arab world and convey more of Iranian culture to the west. Salar Abdoh at Goodreads.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/we-read-discuss-out-of-mesopotamia-the-novel-by-salar-abdoh-and-meet-the-author/
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SUMMARY:TMR Bookgroup Discusses "The Handsome Jew" by Ali Al-Muqri
DESCRIPTION:The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This powerful novel tells the tragic saga of two lovers\, Salem\, a Jew\, and Fatima\, a Muslim\, who fall in a forbidden\, intense\, and passionate love against all circumstances designed to divide them in a society bound by religion. This boundary-crossing love story epitomises the doomed relationship between Jews and Muslims in Yemen\, sheds light on how each community sees the other\, interrogates religious and social barriers\, and proves that\, against all odds\, love can conquer all — OR till death do the fated couple part. (Goodreads) \nSunday\, Aug. 28\, with translator Mbarek Sryfi. To receive the Zoom link\, email books@themarkaz.org.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/tmr-bookgroup-discusses-the-handsome-jew-by-ali-al-muqri/
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SUMMARY:TMR Bookgroup discusses the stories of Ayelet Tsabari
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Markaz Review runs an international book club that meets on Zoom every last Sunday of the month. Readers from Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi share thoughts and insights on the month’s selection. Frequently\, the author (and sometimes their translator) joins the group during the second half of the hour. Our bookgroup always meets the last Sunday at 1 pm Eastern. \nOn Sunday\, July 31st\, we will be talking about the short stories of Ayelet Tsabari in The Best Place on Earth. \nConfident\, original and humane\, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities\, religions and communities: expatriates\, travellers\, immigrants and locals. \nIn the powerfully affecting opening story\, “Tikkun\,” a chance meeting between a man and his former lover carries them through near tragedy and into unexpected peace. In “Casualties\,” Tsabari takes us into the military—a world every Israeli knows all too well—with a brusque\, sexy young female soldier who forges medical leave forms to make ends meet. Poets\, soldiers\, siblings and dissenters\, the protagonists here are mostly Israelis of Mizrahi background (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent)\, whose stories have rarely been told in literature. In illustrating the lives of those whose identities swing from fiercely patriotic to powerfully global\, The Best Place on Earth explores Israeli history as it illuminates the tenuous connections—forged\, frayed and occasionally destroyed—between cultures\, between generations and across the gulf of transformation and loss. [Goodreads] \nTo get on the list to receive the Zoom link for July 31\, email books@themarkaz.org. \nTMR’s bookgroup is moderated by Jordanian bookworm (and editor/translator) Rana Asfour.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/tmr-bookgroup-discusses-the-stories-of-ayelet-tsabari/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Joumana Haddad's "The Book of Queens" with Radical Books & TMR
DESCRIPTION:Register Here (Free Event)\n  \n  \n  \nThis online event takes place June 4\, 2022 at 12 noon Eastern/17:00 UK/18:00 CET \n  \nThe Markaz Review in partnership with the Radical Books Collective presents a lively online discussion about Joumana Haddad’s new novel The Book of Queens from Interlink Books\, with the author joining in the second half of the hour. Moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure. \n  \n\n  \nAuthor Joumana Haddad\nThe Book of Queens is a family saga that spans four generations of women caught up in the tragic whirlwind of turf wars and suffering in the Middle East—from the Armenian genocide and the Israeli occupation of Palestine to modern-day civil wars and the struggles between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon and Syria. \nFour queens of a deck of cards dealt a bad hand by fate—Qayah\, Qana\, Qadar and Qamar—form the branches of the same family tree rooted in the land of their origins despite the forceful winds that repeatedly try to carry them away. A line of red-haired women united by the ties of blood that runs through their veins—which violence has spread through the ages—each with a deep story and all with one thing in common: unwavering power and resilience in the face of adversities of being a woman in a war-torn region. \nWith the perfect mastery of finely chiseled writing\, Joumana Haddad manages to construct a novel of extraordinary intensity\, without ever sinking into pathos or grandiloquence. She also challenges the systematic abuse of political and religious power and authority that continues to cloud the lives of a culturally diverse and progressive youth until the present day. \n  \n\n  \nOrder a copy.\nAbout the author\nJoumana Haddad is an award-winning Lebanese author\, journalist\, and human rights activist. She was the cultural editor of An-Nahar newspaper for many years and now hosts a TV show focusing on human rights issues in the Arab world. She has received the Blue Metropolis Arab Literary Prize and the Arab Press Prize\, among other honors\, and was named one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women for four years in a row by Arabian Business magazine. Her works\, which have been widely translated and published around the world\, include I Killed Scheherazade\, Superman is an Arab\, and The Third Sex. The Book of Queens\, her latest novel\, has been translated into French\, Italian\, and Arabic. \nAbout the host\nBhakti Shringarpure is a writer\, editor and educator. She is the Creative Director of the Radical Books Collective. \nRegister Here (Free Event)
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/joumana-haddads-the-book-of-queens-with-radical-books-tmr/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha\, in conversation with Mary Karr
DESCRIPTION:Register Here (Free Event)\n  \nTakes place at 12 noon Pacific/3 pm Eastern/20:00 UK/21:00 CET \n  \nThe Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza\, by Mosab Abu Toha\, published by City Lights Books. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a device that is capable of accessing the Internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n  \nPoets Mosab abu Toha and Mary Karr.\n“Mosab Abu Toha is an astonishingly gifted young poet from Gaza\, almost a seer with his eloquent lyrical vernacular … His poems break my heart and awaken it\, at the same time. I feel I have been waiting for his work all my life.”–Naomi Shihab Nye \n  \nIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza\, first as a child\, and then as a young father. A survivor of four brutal military attacks\, he bears witness to a grinding cycle of destruction and assault\, and yet\, his poetry is inspired by a profound humanity. \nThese poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown\, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself\, they are filled with rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land\, and they are also suffused with the smell of tea\, roses in bloom\, and the view of the sea at sunset. Children are born\, families continue traditions\, students attend university\, and libraries rise from the ruins as Palestinians go on about their lives\, creating beauty and finding new ways to survive. \n  \n\n  \nOrder a copy.\nMosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet\, scholar\, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. A graduate in English language teaching and literature\, he taught English at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Gaza from 2016 until 2019\, and is the founder of the Edward Said Library\, Gaza’s first English-language library. In 2019-2020\, Abu Toha was a Visiting Poet in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University; a Visiting Librarian at Harvard’s Houghton Library; and a Religion\, Conflict\, and Peace Initiative Fellow in the Harvard Divinity School. In 2020\, Abu Toha gave talks and readings at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, and the University of Arizona. He also spoke at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting held in Philadelphia in January 2020. In October 2021\, University of Notre Dame’s Literatures\, Annihilation\, Exile\, and Resistance lecture series hosted Abu Toha to speak about his poetry and work in Gaza. Abu Toha is a columnist for Arrowsmith Press\, and his writings from Gaza have appeared in The Nation\, Arrowsmith Press\, and Literary Hub. His poems have been published on the Poetry Foundation’s website\, in Poetry Magazine\, Banipal\, Solstice\, The Markaz Review\, The New Arab\, Peripheries\, and other journals. \nMary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars’ Club\, Cherry\, and Lit\, as well as The Art of Memoir\, and five poetry collections\, most recently Tropic of Squalor. Karr is also a songwriter\, having collaborated with Rodney Crowell\, Norah Jones\, Lucinda Williams and others on a country album called KIN. \nThe Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid\, empowerment and education. In the Middle East\, MECA provides humanitarian aid\, partners with community organizations to run projects for children\, and supports income-generation projects. In the US and internationally\, MECA raises awareness about the lives of children in the region and encourages meaningful action.To learn more visit them at : https://www.mecaforpeace.org \nThis event has been made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation. \nRegister Here (Free Event)
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/gaza-poet-mosab-abu-toha-in-conversation-with-mary-karr/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Hisham Bustani's "The Monotonous Chaos of Existence" Bookgroup
DESCRIPTION:Free Event / 1 pm Eastern/18:00 UK/19:00 CET \nTMR invites you to participate in our monthly bookgroup conversation\, in which authors and/or translators join during the second half of the hour. On Sunday\, April 24th\, writer Hisham Bustani and translator Maia Tabet will join at 1:30 pm Eastern. \nThe Monotonous Chaos of Existence\, stories by Hisham Bustani\n  \n\nHIsham Bustani\nOrder a copy.\nThe stories within Hisham Bustani’s The Monotonous Chaos of Existence explore the turbulent transformation in contemporary Arab societies. With a deft and poetic touch\, Bustani examines the interpersonal with a global lens\, connects the seemingly contradictory\, and delves into the ways that international conflict can tear open the individuals that populate his world—all while pushing the narrative form into new and unexpected terrain. \n“These stories recall the rhythms of poetry\, offer up the intimacy of memoir\, and often feel more like films than fiction. The Monotonous Chaos of Existence got me thinking about similarly semi-surreal and ecstatic truth tellers Denis Johnson and Chester Himes\, a comparison that will have to do for now because I’m still dizzy and not exactly thinking straight after reading these interrogations of the cruelty and absurdity of occupation and so-called post-colonialism. Clear-eyed personal/political storytelling that is exciting\, askew\, and challenging.” \n—Brandon Soderberg\, coauthor\, I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad \n  \nTo receive the Zoom link for this free online event\, simply email books@themarkaz.org.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/hisham-bustanis-the-monotonous-chaos-of-existence-bookgroup/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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