Israel/Palestine

Israel-Palestine Committee
Reading Group List

  • by BFP Team

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  1. Daytime Group: Monday, April 5, 2:00 pm: “Velvet: A Novel” by  Huzama Habayeb  (Author), Kay Heikkinen  (Translator)
  2. Evening Group: Monday, April 19, 6:00 pm:  “The Book of Disappearance,” by Palestinian novelist Ibtisam Azem

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  1. Monday, March 1, 2:00 pm: Ghassan Kanafani’s novella “Return to Haifa”: pp 149–188 in “Palestine’s Children”
  2. Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm: Discussion of film “Til Kingdom Come,” about evangelical Christian support for Israel. The film will be released on February 25

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  1. Monday, Feb. 15, 6:00 pm: Paper the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently issued, explaining why Israel is an apartheid state Article by Nathan Thrall on the same topic.

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  1. Monday, Jan 18, 6:00 pm: Discussion of film “Mayor” (in Arabic and English with subtitles. 1 hour 29 minutes) QA with the filmmaker sponsored by the magazine “Jewish Currents.
  2. Monday, Jan. 25, 2:00 pm:  “The Optimist: A social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad”, by Tamir Sorek. The second half (Chapter 6–Chapter 10)

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