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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/youssef-rakha-presents-the-dissente
 rs-in-conversation-with-linda-mokdad/
SUMMARY:Youssef Rakha presents The Dissenters in conversation with Linda Mo
 kdad
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-hosted by Mizna!\n\nCertain as I’ve never be
 en of anything in the world that you have a right or a duty to know\, that
  you absolutely must know\, I sail through the mouth of that river into th
 e sea of her life.\n\nAmna\, Nimo\, Mouna—these are all names for a sing
 le Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her d
 eath in 2015\, her son\, Nour\, ascends to the attic of their house where 
 he glimpses her in a series of ever more immersive visions: Amna as a youn
 g woman forced into an arranged marriage in the 1950s\, a coquettish stude
 nt of French known to her confidants as Nimo\, a self-made divorcee and a 
 lover\, a “pious mama” donning her hijab\, and\, finally\, a feminist 
 activist during the Arab Spring. Charged and renewed by these visions of a
  woman he has always known as Mouna\, Nour begins a series of fevered lett
 ers to his sister—who has been estranged from Mouna and from Egypt for m
 any years—in an attempt to reconcile what both siblings know about this 
 mercurial woman\, their country\, and the possibility for true revolution 
 after so much has failed.
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 American,Community,culture,Discussion,Food,Lecture,Music/Folk/World
LOCATION:Magers and Quinn Booksellers\, 3038 Hennepin Avenue\,  Minneapolis
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