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Date(s) - 03/18/2025 - 05/08/2025
7:00 pm

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Lost City Books

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• #arabic
• Arab
• Arab American
• Community
• culture

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Join us at Lost City Books to discuss classics of Palestinian literature, led by Professor Elliott Colla, professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. We’ll have 3 dates this spring:

Tuesday March 18th: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Tuesday April 15th: Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani

Thursday May 8th: The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

All meetings are at 7pm upstairs in the bookstore.

Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact events@lostcitybookstore.com with questions.

Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar events@lostcitybookstore.com con cualquiera duda.

*For those interested in further reading, Professor Colla has kindly shared a recommended reading list below.

Histories of Palestine-Israel

1. Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (2020)
2. Walid Khalid, All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (2006)
3. Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006)
4. Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (1979)
5. Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000)

Some Classic Works of Palestinian Literature

Arabophone

1. Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (1973)
2. ——, Memory for Forgetfulness (1995)
3. ——, In the Presence of Absence (1985)
4. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, In Search of Walid Masoud (1978)
5. ——, The Ship (1985)
6. Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun (1961)
7. Adania Shibli, Touch (2001)

Anglophone

1. Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2010)
2. Suheir Hammad, Born Palestinian, Born Black (1996)
3. Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance (2018)
4. Fawaz Turki, Soul in Exile (1988)