Brown University scholar Joe Leidy leads the discussion of The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar (Author). C. J. Collins (Translator)
Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian ‘hummus tragic’. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he obsessively observes the hummus making ritual–mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina…with just a touch of cumin. But when the ‘Hummus War’ erupted in the Middle East in 2008, amongst the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was intrigued and hungry for more. He discovers a war in the kitchen, just as ferocious as any Arab-Israeli conflict. But this war has no soldiers, bullets, rockets or tanks. Just – CHICK PEAS and HUMMUS!
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Learning English by Rachid al-Daif, trans. from the Arabic by Paula and Adnan Haydar.
Facilitated by Joe Leidy, PhD candidate in modern Middle Eastern history at Brown University. A native of Burlington, he has an MA in Middle East Studies from University of Texas at Austin and has studied Arabic in Jordan and the West Bank, as well as, archival research in Argentina and Lebanon.
Free copies of the book are available to borrow from the Library's main desk.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Wadjda is the story of a fun-loving 10-year old girl determined to turn her dreams into reality. A groundbreaking film that is hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring all at once.
Continue the journey through the literature of the Arab World with Badriah Albeshr's Hend and the Soldiers, translated by Sanna Dhahir. Hend is a young Saudi Arabian woman struggling to challenge her conservative society, which is represented by various soldiers, real and metaphorical, in her life. Writer Lesley Wright facilitates the discussion,
Free copies of the book are available to borrow from the Library's main desk.
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