Author Meets BookTok: Sim Kern and Rashid Khalidi on The Hundred Years War on Palestine @librarianswithpalestine

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Join us for this can’t miss event: Sim Kern in conversation with Rashid Khalidi, author of the New York Times bestseller, and Booktok favorite, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Hosted by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, we will explore Palestinian history, learn about Gaza’s place in it, and how history can help all of us, especially book influencers, meet this moment of mobilization against genocide and war. We are proud to host this event as part of Read Palestine Week.

Rashid Khalidi's recommendations:
Return to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani (and other books!)
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
Books by Suad Amiry
Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora, edited by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace

Sim Kern's recommendations:
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh

Deanna Roberts (moderator) recommendations:
What It Means To Be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood by Dina Matar

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Author Meets BookTok: Sim Kern and Rashid Khalidi on The Hundred Years War on Palestine

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine 2023-12-05 | Join us for this can’t miss event: Sim Kern in conversation with Rashid Khalidi, author of the New York Times bestseller, and Booktok favorite, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Hosted by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, we will explore Palestinian history, learn about Gaza’s place in it, and how history can help all of us, especially book influencers, meet this moment of mobilization against genocide and war. We are proud to host this event as part of Read Palestine Week.

Rashid Khalidi's recommendations:
Return to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani (and other books!)
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
Books by Suad Amiry
Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora, edited by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace

Sim Kern's recommendations:
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh

Deanna Roberts (moderator) recommendations:
What It Means To Be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood by Dina Matar

One Book Live with Mosab Abu Toha

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine 2024-04-16 | Join Librarians and Archivists with Palestine for a converastation with Mosab Abu Toha, author of our “One Book, Many Communities” title for 2024: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. The event will consist of a moderated conversation with Abu Toha with time for audience questions.

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza. He is the founder of the Edward Said Library, and from 2019 to 2020, he was a visiting poet and librarian-in-residence at Harvard University.

Published in 2022, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear won the 2022 Palestine Book Award, the 2023 American Book Award, Arrowsmith Press’s 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

Heart-wrenching and tender, Abu Toha paints a picture of life in Gaza from the perspective as a native Gazan, first as a child and later as a young father. The scenes of violence and destruction of living through four brutal military attacks are set against a landscape of humanity and joy as resistance of Palestine and its people. The reality of life in Gaza under siege emerges from the page like a flower blooming from rubble.

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Live Stream

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine 2023-12-03 | ...