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Subject: Friday's event on the "A" List!
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:10:33 -0800
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Mizna's friday event is on the City Pages "A" List picks. Read below...
http://calendar.citypages.com/browse/2007-12-07/
Mizna presents, Ibtisam Barakat reading from her memoir, Tasting the Sky: A
Palestinian Childhood.
Time: 7:00pm
Readings & Lectures
The Loft Literary Center
1011 Washington Ave. S, Ste 200
Minneapolis, MN
Reading Ibtisam Barakat's memoir, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, it is a
wonder that more war stories are not written from the point of view of children.
Barakat's memories as a three-year-old during the Six-Day War are stark and
immediate: the pain she felt as she fled barefoot from her home with her family, the
donkey that comforted her while she and other refugees hid in Jordan, gorging
herself on stolen sweets with her two older brothers. Each story and scene is told
with a lyrical beauty that never strays from the progressively older voice of the
narrator. More importantly, this memoir shares stories from the Palestinian point of
view that are rarely seen. As Middle East peace talks are reopened, President Bush
and other diplomats and world leaders might do well to read stories like Barakat's
and those of other ordinary Israelis and Palestinians. As Barakat writes in her
introduction, "To learn more about the Middle East, and to deepen our
understanding of both
Palestinians and Israelis, it helps to share stories. Mine is one of many." ?
Rhena Tantisunthorn
Mizna is a forum for Arab American art. Visit our website at
http://www.mizna.org
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