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SUMMARY:P&P Live! Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta — NIGHTMARE SCENARIO - with Ashley Parker
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE to register for this virtual event! \nSince the day Donald Trump was elected\, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host—and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020\, that crisis came to pass\, with the outcomes more devastating and consequential than anyone dared to imagine. Nightmare Scenario is the complete story of Donald Trump’s handling—and mishandling—of the COVID-19 catastrophe\, during the period of January 2020 up to Election Day that year. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta take us deep inside the White House\, from the Situation Room to the Oval Office\, to show how the members of the administration launched an all-out war against the health agencies\, doctors\, and scientific communities\, all in their futile attempts to wish away the worst global pandemic in a century. \nYasmeen Abutaleb* covers health policy for the Washington Post. She chronicled the Trump administration’s coronavirus response and White House task force in 2020. She previously reported for Reuters. \nDamian Paletta is the economics editor at the Washington Post and previously covered the White House for the Post and the Wall Street Journal. \nThe authors will be in conversation with Ashley Parker\, a Pulitzer Prize winning White House reporter for The Washington Post. \n*I couldn’t confirm that she was Arab but I went ahead and added this event to the calendar just in case!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/pp-live-yasmeen-abutaleb-damian-paletta-nightmare-scenario-with-ashley-parker/
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad in Conversation With Roy Scranton
DESCRIPTION:From Omar El Akkad\, the widely acclaimed author of American War\, comes What Strange Paradise (Knopf)\, a beautifully written\, unrelentingly dramatic\, and profoundly moving new novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled\, ill-equipped\, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Palestinians\, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir\, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl\, native to the island\, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers\, though they don’t speak a common language\, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters\, we learn the story of the boy’s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world\, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despair — and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality\, or guide us to a better one. El Akkad will be joined in conversation by Roy Scranton\, author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We’re Doomed. Now What?. \nRegister for the Zoom event  /  Buy the Book
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/omar-el-akkad-in-conversation-with-roy-scranton/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emilly Prado with Ifrah F. Ahmed — Funeral for Flaca: Essays
DESCRIPTION:Third Place Books is thrilled to welcome Emilly Prado for a discussion of her debut essay collection\, Funeral for Flaca. She will be joined in conversation by writer\, creative director\, and cook Ifrah F. Ahmed. \n— \nIfrah F. Ahmed is a writer\, creative director\, and cook. She co-founded and edits the pioneering Somali arts and culture publication ARAWEELO. Ifrah is also the founder of Milk & Myrrh\, a Somali culinary pop-up experience. She has been featured in the New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, and NYLON. Her writing and recipes have most recently appeared in the LA Times and Whetstone Magazine. Originally born in the beautiful coastal city of Mogadishu\, Somalia she now splits her time between Brooklyn and Seattle.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-event-emilly-prado-with-ifrah-f-ahmed-funeral-for-flaca-essays/
LOCATION:WA
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SUMMARY:Mona Hajjar Halaby Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, August 26 \nTime: 5 – 6:30pm PT/ 8 – 9:30pm ET\nCost: FREE –register now! \n  \nJoin Middle East Children’s Alliance to celebrate the release of Mona Hajjar Halaby’s new book! Mona is a long-time friend and supporter of MECA. \n  \nMONA HAJJAR HALABY is a Palestinian-American educator\, writer and social history buff\, residing in California\, USA. She is the author of In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home\, which interweaves the story of her mother’s life and her own sabbatical year teaching conflict resolution in Ramallah. She has created a Facebook page focused on photographs of Jerusalem during the first half of the twentieth century\, entitled “British Mandate Jerusalemites Photo Library\,” and has also collaborated on the interactive documentary www.jerusalemwearehere.com \n  \nFREE\, Register Now! www.mecaforpeace.org/MonaHalaby
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/mona-hajjar-halaby-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad with Jeff VanderMeer (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Omar El Akkad\, now living south of here in Portland\, but for many years an award-winning international journalist living and working out of Toronto\, blew readers away a few years ago with his eerily prescient first novel\, American War. He gave a moving reading from that at Elliott Bay. We anticipate similar engagement for readers attending this – and reading – his haunting\, beautifully written new novel\, What Strange Paradise (Knopf). There is an overwhelmed boat filled with refugees fleeing homelands such as Syria\, Ethiopia\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, a boat which\, in time\, capsizes. There is a survivor\, a young boy\, and his attempts to elude would-be captors\, aided by a young girl living on the island he has washed ashore upon. These are the bare bones of what Omar El Akkad does with extraordinary skill\, empathy\, compassion. \n“What Strange Paradise is by turns tender and brutal in its truths. It is tremendously written\, propulsive as it is expansive as it is granular in its specificities. Omar El Akkad writes with such emotional precision\, power\, and grace. Here we get the wondrousness of children set in sharp relief against a backdrop of the all too common dehumanization then dismissal of refugees everywhere. The book devastates and uplifts\, somehow\, and we are not left with hope—that isn’t the point—but asked to witness\, to see what is here\, with clarity\, and with fullness of heart.” —Tommy Orange. \n“What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad just resuscitated my heart. This novel—following a boy who survives a refugee passage\, and a girl whose homeland feels fractured—dares to unite us on the shore of shared human experience\, and redefines hope in the face of despair. I want to read this book every single day. I want to live in a world where the beauty of strangers is a heartsong.”  —Lidia Yuknavitch. \nWith Omar El Akkad in conversation this evening will be the wonderful writer Jeff VanDerMeer\, who recently did an evening such as this for Elliott Bay readers with his own newest novel\, Hummingbird Salamander. A generous supporter of other writers and many good causes\, he and Omar El Akkad have some interesting shared literary ‘history’ of a good sort\, which will no doubt come out this evening.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/omar-el-akkad-with-jeff-vandermeer-virtual/
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