{"id":33050,"date":"2024-05-03T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=33050"},"modified":"2024-05-20T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:20:07","slug":"u-s-book-tour-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-with-editor-jordan-elgrably-and-contributing-writers","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/event\/u-s-book-tour-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-with-editor-jordan-elgrably-and-contributing-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Book Tour: &#8220;Stories from the Center of the World&#8221; with editor Jordan Elgrably and contributing writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>RSVP form below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f WHAT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Book launch of new Middle East fiction anthology\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f WHO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Editor Jordan Elgrably and various writers read from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/city-lights-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udccd WHERE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington DC, New York City. Each city has its own event link:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>MAY 9 (In-person &amp; online) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco, City Lights, with Sarah AlKahly-Mills, 7 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/city-lights-events-jorgan-elgrably\">https:\/\/citylights.com\/events\/jordan-elgrably\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 10 (In-person) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berkeley, Books Inc with Sarah AlKahly-Mills, 6 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/books-inc-berkeley-events-jordan-elgrably-and-sarah-alkahky-mills\">https:\/\/www.booksinc.net\/event\/jordan-elgrably-books-inc-berkeley<\/a><\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 11 (In-person) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacramento, Capital Books, 5 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/capital-books-on-k-events-jordan-elgrably\">https:\/\/capitalbooksonk.com\/jordan-elgrably<\/a><\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 16 (In-person) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque with Reza Sixo Safai, 8 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/beyond-baroque-events-jordan-elgrably-and-reza-sixo-safai\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/la-launch-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-new-middle east-fiction-tickets-880484200947?aff=oddtdtcreator\u00a0<\/a><\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 17 (In-person) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Las Vegas with Ahmed Naji, The Writers Block, 7 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/the-writes-block-events-jordan-elgrably-and-ahmed-naji\">https:\/\/www.thewritersblock.org\/events\/upcoming-events<\/a><\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 20 (In-person) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago at Northwestern University Sahar Mustafah, 4 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/northwestern-university-events-jordan-elgrably-and-sahar-mustafah\">https:\/\/planitpurple.northwestern.edu\/event\/615352<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/northwestern-university-fb-event-jordan-elgrably-and-sahar-mustafah\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1656522558491274\/\u00a0<\/a><\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 21 (In-person &amp; online) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington DC, Busboys and Poets, with Natasha Tynes, 6 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/busboys-and-poets-events-jordan-elgrably-and-natasha-tynes\">https:\/\/www.busboysandpoets.com\/events\/th-evt-38480538\/<\/a><\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>MAY 22 (In-person) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NYC at the NYPL Tompkins Square, 6 pm with Omar El Akkad: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/arte-east-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-readings-from-jordan-elgrably-and-omar-el-akkad\">https:\/\/arteeast.org\/news-events\/stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-readings-from-jordan-elgrably-and-omar-el-akkad\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<style id=\"wpforms-css-vars-33041\">\n\t\t\t\t#wpforms-33041 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viewpoints that illuminate life in the\u00a0 global Arab\/Muslim world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cProvocative and subtle, nuanced and surprising . . . these stories demonstrate how this\u00a0 complicated and rich region might best be approached\u2014 through the power of literature&#8230;\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><b>Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of <\/b><b><i>The Committed\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/city-lights-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world\"><b><i>Stories from the Center of the World<\/i><\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0gathers new writing from the <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g<\/span><b>reater Middle East <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or SWANA \u2014 <\/span><b>a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia,\u00a0 through the <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included\u00a0 <\/span><b>here come from a wide range of cultures and countries, including Palestine, Syria,\u00a0 Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco, to name a few.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>In \u201cAsha and Haaji,\u201d Hanif Kureishi takes up the cause of outsiders who <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">become\u00a0 uprooted when war or disaster strikes and they flee for safe haven. In <\/span><b>Nektaria Anastasiadou<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cThe Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff,\u201d two students in Istanbul from\u00a0 different classes\u2014and religions that have often been at odds with one another\u2014believe they\u00a0 can overcome all <\/span><b>obstacles. MK Harb<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s story, \u201cCounter Strike,\u201d is about queer love among\u00a0 Beiruti <\/span><b>adolescents, and Salar Abdoh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s \u201cThe Long Walk of the Martyrs\u201d invites us into the\u00a0 world of former militants, fighters who fought ISIS or Daesh in Iraq and <\/span><b>Syria, and are having\u00a0 a hard time readjusting to civilian life. In \u201cEleazar,\u201d Karim Kattan tells an unexpected\u00a0 Palestinian story in which the usual antagonists\u2014Israeli occupation forces\u2014are mostly\u00a0 absent, while another malevolent force seems to overtake an unsuspecting family. Omar\u00a0 El Akkad<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s \u201cThe Icarist\u201d is a <\/span><b>coming-of-age story about the underworld in which illegal immigrants are forced to live, and what happens when one dares to break away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/author\/jordanthemarkaz-org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32783 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jordan-Elgrably-photo-by-Keith-Pitts-e1714660633190-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jordan-Elgrably-photo-by-Keith-Pitts-e1714660633190-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jordan-Elgrably-photo-by-Keith-Pitts-e1714660633190-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jordan-Elgrably-photo-by-Keith-Pitts-e1714660633190-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>JORDAN ELGRABLY <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a Franco-American and Moroccan writer and translator, whose\u00a0 stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0anthologies and reviews,\u00a0 including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apul\u00e9e<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salmagundi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Paris Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He is the editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stories from the\u00a0 Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(City Lights 2024) and co-editor with Malu\u00a0 Halasa of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sum\u016bd: a New Palestinian Reader <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Seven Stories Press 2024). 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