CULVER CITY, CA

Author Ahmad Nabil and Randa Jarrar engage in a conversation and reading exploring mythology in heritage of Arab culture.

Join us for a conversation and reading with Ahmad Nabil and Randa Jarrar, whose work explores the mythology and heritage of Arab culture through memoir, prose, and illustration.

This event is sponsored by Culver City for Peace.

About the participants:

Ahmad Nabil is a visual artist and researcher in the fields of Arab and Islamic mythology and paranormal phenomena. He focuses on their relationship to land, natural resources, and their integration into intangible heritage for the preservation of land and collective memory. In 2015, he founded The Fiction Council in Jerusalem.

Randa Jarrar is the author of the novel A Map of Home and the collection of stories Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, Bitch, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award and an American Book Award, as well as awards and fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Hedgebrook, PEN, and others. A professor of creative writing and a performer, Jarrar lives in Los Angeles.