{"id":35887,"date":"2025-01-14T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=35887"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:21:35","slug":"u-s-book-tour-sumud-a-new-palestinian-reader-with-editors-jordan-elgrably-malu-halasa-and-special-guests","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/event\/u-s-book-tour-sumud-a-new-palestinian-reader-with-editors-jordan-elgrably-malu-halasa-and-special-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Book Tour: &#8220;Sum\u016bd: A New Palestinian Reader&#8221; with editors Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably &#038; Special Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mala Halasa &amp; Jordan Elgrably on tour for their new anthology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/4653-sumud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/4653-sumud&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1736931015939000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bNgNVgH48Ak3EJqJ_KeNS\"><i><b>Sum\u016bd:\u00a0A New Palestinian Reader<\/b><\/i><\/a>, from Seven Stories Press, with special guests:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;A powerful and inspiring testament to the human spirit, to the resilience of the Palestinian people, and to their indomitable struggle for liberation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014<b>Nathan Thrall<\/b>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u00a0<i>A Day in the Life of Abed Salama<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tour dates and locations:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan. 24, 7 pm (Fri) <a href=\"https:\/\/politics-prose.com\/halasa-elgrably\">Politics and Prose<\/a>, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20008<\/li>\n<li>Jan. 30, 5:15 pm (Thurs) Harvard, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138 <a href=\"https:\/\/harvard.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_e5I4GZJJkJkxGrI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP Online<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jan 31, 5:30 pm (Fri) University of Pennsylvania,\u00a0<i>3451 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (special guest Ahmad Almallah) <a href=\"https:\/\/mec.sas.upenn.edu\/events\/2025\/01\/31\/sumud-new-palestinian-reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More info<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Feb. 5, 5-7 pm (Wed) NYU, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square NYC 10003 (special guest Mosab Abu Toha &amp; Lina Mounzer ) <a href=\"https:\/\/events.nyu.edu\/event\/beforeandaftergaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP Online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/donate\/\">Donations<\/a> are welcome to support The Markaz Review.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About the book:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/4653-sumud\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35348 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Sumud-pre-sales-image-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Sumud-pre-sales-image-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Sumud-pre-sales-image-600x878.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Sumud-pre-sales-image.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<p>The Arabic word\u00a0<i>sum\u016bd<\/i>\u00a0is often loosely translated as \u201csteadfastness\u201d or \u201cstanding fast.\u201d It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation.\u00a0<i>Sum\u016bd<\/i>\u00a0is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them.<\/p>\n<p>In 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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/4653-sumud\"><em>Sum\u016bd: A New Palestinian Reader<\/em><\/a>\u00a0honors 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.<\/p>\n<p>The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in\u00a0<i>Sum\u016bd: A New Palestinian Reader<\/i>\u00a0is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestinians\u2019 aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of culture\u2019s power and importance during occupation and war.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32788 size-thumbnail\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Malu Halasa by Keith Pitts\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>MALU HALASA<\/strong>, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review, is a London-based writer and editor. Her latest book as editor is <em>Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women\u2019s Protests in Iran<\/em> (Saqi 2023). Her six previous co-edited anthologies include <em>Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline<\/em>, with coedited with Zaher Omareen &amp; Nawara Mahfoud; <em>The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design<\/em>, with Rana Salam; and the short series: <em>Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images<\/em>, with Rosanne Khalaf, and <em>Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations<\/em>, 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\u2019s debut novel, <em>Mother of All Pigs<\/em> was reviewed by the New York Times as \u201ca microcosmic portrait of \u2026 a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32783 size-thumbnail\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>JORDAN ELGRABLY<\/strong> is a Franco-American and Moroccan writer and translator, whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and reviews, including Apul\u00e9e, 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\u20132020). He is the editor of <em>Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/citylights.com\/city-lights-published\/stories-from-the-center-of-the-world\/\">City Lights<\/a> 2024) and co-editor with Malu Halasa of <em>Sum\u016bd: a New Palestinian Reader<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/4653-sumud\">Seven Stories Press<\/a> 2024). Based in Montpellier, France and California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the launch of &#8220;Sum\u016bd: A New Palestinian Reader&#8221; with editors Jordan Elgrably and Malu Halasa on a U.S. Book Tour from January 24th to February 5th with special guests! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":36002,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"coauthors":[2040],"class_list":["post-35887","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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