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SUMMARY:Elena Dudum w/ Ijeoma Oluo: They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful
DESCRIPTION:In her Palestinian Christian home in San Francisco\, Elena Dudum was raised in a household ruled by her father’s lectures. He taught her everything: the story of her grandparents’ flight from their homeland\, the history of her family’s orange groves\, and the facts of the ongoing occupation of Palestine. Above all\, he taught her not to forget. Soon his lessons consumed her childhood\, and Elena found herself shrinking from an inheritance that felt both sacred and suffocating. \nFor years\, she resisted it all until a family trip to Palestine shattered the abstraction of her homeland. Checkpoints\, razed olive groves\, soldiers—it was all plainly in front of her\, as were the ghosts of her family’s past. What was once always just out of reach\, now pressed against her body. Back in the United States\, something in her quietly unraveled. She tried to outrun what she now knew by burying herself in elite institutions and the rising world of tech\, where ambition was rewarded and history was inconvenient. \nEventually\, the inheritance she thought she could escape demanded reckoning. \nBraiding rich personal narrative with archival fragments and cultural critique\, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful traces one woman’s journey as she returns—slowly\, deliberately—to her father’s lessons\, determined to claim them on her own terms. \nElena Dudum is a Palestinian American writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Time\, Cosmopolitan\, and Bon Appétit\, among others. In 2025\, she was awarded the Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for early chapters in They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful. Her work has been supported by The de Groot Foundation\, Tin House\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and Hedgebrook. Born in San Francisco\, she now divides her time between New York and London. They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful is her first book. \nIjeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer\, speaker\, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling first book\, So You Want To Talk About Race\, Mediocre\, and Be a Revolution. Her work on race and gender has been published in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and NBC News; and she has been featured on The Daily Show and NPR’s All Things Considered. Named on the TIME 100 Next list and The Root 100\, she’s been awarded the Harvard Humanist of the Year Award\, the American Humanist Association’s Feminist Humanist Award\, Gender Justice League’s Media Justice Award\, and the Equal Opportunity Institute’s Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/elena-dudum-w-ijeoma-oluo-they-told-me-back-home-would-be-beautiful/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
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