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SUMMARY:Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson (livestream) A Citizen’s Guide to Medicare for All
DESCRIPTION:Doctors Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson join us via livestream to present a simple guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting. Using their book Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide as a base\, they relate how\, although healthcare policy is notoriously complex\, what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that’s easy to use and doesn’t break the bank. And two-thirds of Americans want the government to provide universal health coverage. Is Medicare for All the solution? El-Sayed and Johnson offer a serious examination of this complex subject\, offering viewpoints on how Medicare for All would transform the way we give\, receive\, and pay for healthcare in America. Don’t miss this conversation that is perhaps more significant than ever before. \nAbdul El-Sayed\, MD\, DPhil\, is a physician\, epidemiologist\, public health expert\, and progressive activist. He rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after the City’s bankruptcy as the youngest big-city health commissioner in a major US city. He ran for Governor of Michigan in 2018 on a state-level single-payer platform in a bid endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders\, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\, The Nation\, and Current Affairs. He holds a doctorate in Public Health from University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar\, and a medical degree from Columbia University.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/abdul-el-sayed-and-micah-johnson-livestream-a-citizens-guide-to-medicare-for-all/
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SUMMARY:Palestine Writes Cultural Spotlight: Ibtisam Azem: The Book of Disappearance
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce the Palestine Writes Cultural Spotlight.  These zoom webinar events will offer registration and live-streaming on facebook. \nThis month\, we are featuring Ibtisam Azem and her incredible novel\, The Book of Disappearance. The event will be co-sponsored by the Institute of Palestinian Studies and moderated by Laura Al Bast\, a digital editor at the Institute for Palestinian Studies. Please register for the event here! \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrZw-Cv6Q2BdV7p_7kPdVNNUIQcM9KGV7Hve4gBt8ntYBOoA/viewform
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/palestine-writes-cultural-spotlight-ibtisam-azem-the-book-of-disappearance/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: The Wandering Palestinian with Dr. Anan Ameri
DESCRIPTION:FREE with RSVP \nJoin Dr. Anan Ameri\, founding director of AANM\, at the next Virtual Book Club! Dr. Ameri will give a live reading from her recently published book The Wandering Palestinian\, and discussion hosted by AANM deputy director Dr. Jumana Salamey. The Wandering Palestinian is a memoir of Dr. Ameri’s journey from immigrating to Detroit\, Michigan to becoming a driving force of her community. \nPlease note that the event is free\, but books are for sale. We encourage readers to purchase books from Nicola’s Books: hardcover\, paperback. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nAnan Ameri played a pivotal role in the creation of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, Michigan. The Wandering Palestinian chronicles her life from 1974 in Beirut\, Lebanon to Detroit\, Michigan as she learns how to adjust to culture shock\, finds her independence and becomes a driving force in Detroit’s large and politically active Arab American community—an involvement that helped her break away from her isolation and resume her activism\, and paved the way for her to become a recognized and respected leader in her community.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-book-club-the-wandering-palestinian-with-dr-anan-ameri/
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SUMMARY:P&P Live! Nicholas Freudenberg\, Abdul El-Sayed\, and Micah Johnson — American Healthcare: What's Broken and How We Can Fix It
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE to join the Live! event\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare–and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives\, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy\, 18 cents go to healthcare. What are we paying for\, exactly? \nHealthcare policy is notoriously complex\, but what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that’s easy to use and doesn’t break the bank. Polls show that a majority of Americans want the government to provide universal health coverage to all Americans. Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide is the roadmap to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting \n—– \nAt What Cost confronts how globalization\, financial speculation\, monopolies\, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government\, family\, community\, and faith. As corporations manipulate demand through skillful marketing and veto the choices that undermine their bottom line\, free consumer choice has all but disappeared\, and with it\, the personal protections guarding our collective health. At What Cost argues that the world created by 21st-century capitalism is simply not fit to solve our most serious public health problems\, from climate change to opioid addiction. However\, author and public health expert Nicholas Freudenberg also shows that though the road is steep\, human and planetary well-being constitute a powerful mobilizing idea for a new social movement\, one that will restore the power of individual voice to our democracy.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/abdul-el-sayed-and-micah-johnson-livestream-a-citizens-guide-to-medicare-for-all-pp/
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SUMMARY:NGP Talks with Susan Muaddi Darraj
DESCRIPTION:Susan Muaddi Darraj’s (NGP Member) short story collection\, A Curious Land: Stories from Home\, was named the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction\, judged by Jaime Manrique. It also won the 2016 Arab American Book Award\, a 2016 American Book Award\, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. Her previous short story collection\, The Inheritance of Exile\, was published in 2007 by University of Notre Dame Press.\nIn 2018\, she was named a Ford Fellow by USA Artists. Susan also is a two-time recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has also been awarded a Ruby’s Artist Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation.\n\nIn 2019\, she launched the viral #TweetYourThobe social media campaign to promote Palestinian culture. Later that year\, she was named winner of the Rose Nader Award\, by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)\, an award given by the Nader family to a person who “demonstrates an unwavering dedication and commitment to values of equality and justice.”\nIn January 2020\, Capstone Books launched her debut children’s chapter book series\, Farah Rocks\, about a smart\, brave Palestinian American girl named Farah Hajjar.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/10995/
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SUMMARY:Readings & Conversations with Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture with Laila Lalami\, novelist\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and author of The Moor’s Account and The Other Americans. \nLAILA LALAMI was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She is the author of four novels\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller\, a best-of-2019 selection from NPR\, Time\, and Kirkus\, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. In fall 2020\, she will release Conditional Citizens\, a nonfiction exploration of how the rights\, liberties\, and protections of American citizenship are not always uniformly applied.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/readings-conversations-with-laila-lalami/
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SUMMARY:Lecture at San Jose State University: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:The acclaimed\, award-winning novelist–author of The Moor’s Account and The Other Americans–now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of “conditional citizens.” \nWhat does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth–such as national origin\, race\, or gender–that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. Throughout the book\, she poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained\, keeping the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people whom America embraces with one arm\, and pushes away with the other. \nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together the author’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/lecutre-sjsu-laila-lalami/
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SUMMARY:Silence is a Sense: Layla AlAmma
DESCRIPTION:Joining us today from the UK (hence the weekend starting time) where she is pursuing doctoral work on ‘the intersection of Arab women’s fiction and literary trauma theory’ is Kuwait-born novelist Layla AlAmmar. She has written two novels\, both to much acclaim\, the second of which has become her first to be published in the U.S.\, Silence is a Sense (Algonquin). A woman has fled her homeland of Syria because of the civil war there\, coming to the UK – and trying there to reckon what it has all meant\, even if words aren’t there for saying it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Silence Is a Sense is a fierce novel. The prose is ferocious\, the pace is ferocious and the beguiling central character\, known as The Voiceless\, conceals behind her inability—or reluctance — to speak\, a striking\, visceral intensity. She obsessively watches the people around her to silence her own trauma\, but every now and then it can’t help but break through. Layla AlAmmar has skillfully woven a narrative of memory and grief with an illuminating social critique of the position of asylum seekers within contemporary British society. It is daring and devastating.” —Fiona Mozley. \n“Kuwaiti-American author Layla AlAmmar masterfully depicts that silence is a refuge\, too\, for people affected by the unspeakable . . . AlAmmar succeeds in challenging the refugee or asylum-seeker stereotype\, including the one of a young Arab woman.”—The Markaz Review.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/silence-is-a-sense-layla-alamma/
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CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T150000
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SUMMARY:NBF Presents: Borders of Belonging
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, MARCH 25 @ 6:00PM EST \nNational Book Foundation Presents\n\nNBF YouTube Channel\n\n\nNBF Presents: Borders of Belonging \nTo question the “other” in American identity\, join National Book Award–honored authors Laila Lalami (The Other Americans\, 2019 Fiction Finalist)\, Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Heads of the Colored People\, 2018 Fiction Longlist)\, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (The Undocumented Americans\, 2020 Nonfiction Finalist) for a conversation on borders\, immigration\, and outsiders\, and what it means to write one’s self into existence. Moderated by Concepción de León\, a New York Times reporter.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/11090/
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