Sayed Kashua
Israeli Pages: A Year of Hebrew Literature
Lectures
January 15-17, 2008
In Dancing Arabs and Let There be Morning, Arab-Israeli author Sayed Kashua creates protagonists adrift between two worlds. His heroes are totally Palestinian and equally Israeli; entirely Hebrew and entirely Arab; raised in an Arab village and growing up in a Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem, a city both liberated and occupied.
"Gritty and agile...On any given day, Kashua's narrator may daydream of becoming the first Arab prime minister, bringing 'peace and love to the region,' or embracing militant Islam and blowing up Israeli soldiers at a local intersection--only to do neither. As a portrait of a young man's drift into emotional no man's land, [Dancing Arabs] has the feel of grim truth."
— The New York Times Book Review
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
Lehrhaus Judaica
2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley - map
www.lehrhaus.org
(510) 643-3353
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 8:00 pm
In conversation with Dr. Donny Inbar, director of cultural events, the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California St, San Francisco - map
www.jccsf.org
(415) 292-1233
JCCSF Members: $8 | Public: $10
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 - Noon
In conversation with Professor Gil Hochberg, UCLA, author of In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.
Stanford University
Building 460 - Terrace Room - map
www.stanford.edu
(650) 723-7589
FREE
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 7:30 pm
This event will take place in HEBREW
Kehillah Jewish High School
3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto - map
Presented in partnership with the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation; the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University; Jewish Community Center of San Francisco; UC Berkeley.
