Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha Featuring Amani Haydar
Mon, 26 Aug
|Better Read Than Dead
Join international scholars, Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha, and local award-winning author, Amani Haydar, for an urgent and critical presentation that centres the stories around the question of Palestine.
Time & Location
26 Aug 2024, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
Guests
About The Event
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha’s mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. Winner of an Independent Book Publisher's Silver Medal Award, My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen’s family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian 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 land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the First and Second Intifada, Sami Hermez, with Sireen Sawalha, crafts a rich story of intertwining voices, mixing genres of oral history, memoir, and creative nonfiction.
In celebration of this timely and critically acclaimed new book, multi-award-winning author of The Mother Wound, Amani Haydar, will warmly introduce Australian readers to our special guests, Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha.
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