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MENA Monday | Book Talk | My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

MENA Monday | Book Talk | My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

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Date(s) - 02/26/2024
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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Monday, February 26, 2024
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CT

Where:University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience:Faculty/Staff – Student – Public – Post Docs/Docs – Graduate Students

Cost:0

Contact:MENA
mena@northwestern.edu

Group:Middle East and North African Studies

Co-Sponsor:Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Category:Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Social, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement

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MENA welcomes Dr. Sami Hermez (Northwestern University in Qatar).  He will discuss his book My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine, in conversation with Sarah Schulman (Northwestern University).  Lunch will be served at the event.

A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family’s care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.

In 1967, Sireen Sawalha’s mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. 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.

Through the lives of the Sawalha family, and the story of Iyad’s involvement in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hermez confronts readers with the politics and complexities of armed resistance and the ethical tensions and contradictions that arise, as well as with the dispossession and suffocation of people living under occupation and their ordinary lives in such times. Whether this story leaves readers discomforted, angry, or empowered, they will certainly emerge with a deeper understanding of the Palestinian predicament.

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