{"id":36012,"date":"2025-01-29T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=36012"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:45:42","slug":"tmr-book-club-discusses-too-soon-a-novel-with-author-betty-shamieh","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/event\/tmr-book-club-discusses-too-soon-a-novel-with-author-betty-shamieh\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR Book Club Discusses &#8220;Too Soon: a novel&#8221; with author Betty Shamieh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/-Co4g4NHRHy1y3d9Mn5Djw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday, February 23rd at 1pm EST\/ 6pm UK\/ 7pm CET to discuss &#8220;Too Soon: a novel&#8221; with author Betty Shamieh.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqu\u00e9 cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic\u2014that might garner international attention\u2014in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster\u2026<\/p>\n<p>With biting hilarity, &#8220;Too Soon&#8221; introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family\u2019s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9\/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, &#8220;Too Soon&#8221; illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?<\/p>\n<p>Published by Simon &amp; Schuster, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Betty Shamieh<\/strong>\u00a0is a Palestinian American writer and the author of fifteen plays. She is the playwright-in-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of\u00a0<em>Roar<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Malvolio<\/em>, a sequel to\u00a0<em>Twelfth Night<\/em>, which were both\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>Critic\u2019s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>This online event is free and open to the public. <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donations<\/a> are welcome to support The Markaz Review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/-Co4g4NHRHy1y3d9Mn5Djw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on Sunday, February 23rd at 1pm EST\/ 6pm UK\/ 7pm CET to discuss &#8220;Too Soon: a novel&#8221; with author Betty Shamieh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":36013,"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-36012","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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