BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:37412@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261101T170000 DTSTAMP:20261028T001612Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/susan-abulhawa-a-busboys-and-poets- books-presentation/ SUMMARY:Susan Abulhawa | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nWASHINGTON\, DC\n“A major writer of our time.” —Ali ce Walker\n \;\n\nThe 20th anniversary edition of one of the biggest c ontributions to anglophone Palestinian literature\, with over a million co pies sold worldwide\, featuring a new introduction from Maaza Mengiste. M ornings in Jenin tells the “powerful and passionate” (Michael Palin\, actor and bestselling author) story of Amal\, one of three Palestinian si blings\, born in the Jenin refugee camp to parents displaced from their an cestral village in 1948 by the newly formed Jewish state.\n\nAmal grows up in the shadow of a family and community shattered by loss—of home\, cou ntry\, heritage. Her brother Ismael is stolen as an infant and raised as a n Israeli soldier named David. Her older\, beloved brother Yousef is trans formed from professor to prisoner to fighter. Through war\, occupation\, a nd exile\, over the course of six decades\, three continents\, and four ge nerations\, Amal emerges as the family’s heart—a girl who was read poe try by her father\, a woman who finds love only to lose it in the Sabra an d Shatila massacre\, and a mother raising her daughter Sara alone in Ameri ca while carrying the weight of a homeland she cannot reclaim.\n\nWhen her brother David finally appears\, searching for his origins\, the three sib lings’ fractured lives converge in a powerful reckoning with identity\, belonging\, and the brutal price of a colonial injustice that has defined them all.\n\nsusan abulhawa is a novelist\, poet\, essayist\, scientist\, mother\, and activist. She was born to refugees of the Six-Day War of 196 7\, when her family’s land was seized and Israel captured what remained of Palestine. Her debut novel\, Mornings in Jenin\, translated into thirty languages\, has sold over a million copies worldwide and is considered a classic in Palestinian literature. Her other works include The Blue Betwee n Sky and Water and Against the Loveless World\, an Aspen Words Literary P rize and Atheneum Prize finalist and winner of the Arab American Book Awar d and the Palestine Book Award\, along with\, most recently\, the short st ory collection she edited of writers from Gaza\, Every Moment is a Life. a bulhawa is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine\, a children’s organ ization dedicated to uplifting Palestinian children.\n\nRania Khalek Rania Khalek is a Lebanese American writer\, political activist and journalist at Breakthrough News. Her work has appeared at Common Dreams\, Salon\, The Nation\, In These Times\, Citizen Radio and more. To see more of Rania's work visit her website Dispatches from the Underclass.\nDATE AND TIME\nNov 1\, 2026 5:00 pm\nLOCATION\n14th &\; V\n2021 14th St NW\, Washington\ , District of Columbia\, 20009\nView Map\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/10/Screen-Shot-2026-10-27-at-20.16.16.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR