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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240226T123000
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SUMMARY:MENA Monday | Book Talk | My Brother\, My Land: A Story from Palest
 ine
DESCRIPTION:\n\nMonday\, February 26\, 2024\n12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT\n\nWher
 e:University Hall\, 201\, 1897 Sheridan Road\, Evanston\, IL 60208 map it
 \n\nAudience:Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate 
 Students\n\nCost:0\n\nContact:MENA\nmena@northwestern.edu\n\nGroup:Middle 
 East and North African Studies\n\nCo-Sponsor:Buffett Institute for Global 
 Affairs\n\nCategory:Lectures &amp\; Meetings\, Academic\, Social\, Multicu
 ltural &amp\; Diversity\, Global &amp\; Civic Engagement\n\n\n\nDescriptio
 n:\nMENA welcomes Dr. Sami Hermez (Northwestern University in Qatar).  He
  will discuss his book My Brother\, My Land: A Story from Palestine\, in c
 onversation with Sarah Schulman (Northwestern University).  Lunch will be
  served at the event.\n\nA riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinia
 n resistance\, the story of one family's care for their land\, and a refle
 ction on love and heartache while living under military occupation.\n\nIn 
 1967\, Sireen Sawalha's mother\, with her young children\, walked back to 
 Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother\, My Land is the story 
 of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Pal
 estinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the 
 shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their la
 nd\, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the Fir
 st and Second Intifada\, Sami Hermez\, with Sireen Sawalha\, crafts a rich
  story of intertwining voices\, mixing genres of oral history\, memoir\, a
 nd creative nonfiction.\n\nThrough the lives of the Sawalha family\, and t
 he story of Iyad's involvement in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad\, Hermez c
 onfronts readers with the politics and complexities of armed resistance an
 d the ethical tensions and contradictions that arise\, as well as with the
  dispossession and suffocation of people living under occupation and their
  ordinary lives in such times. Whether this story leaves readers discomfor
 ted\, angry\, or empowered\, they will certainly emerge with a deeper unde
 rstanding of the Palestinian predicament.\n\n
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