About this Event
October 12 | In-Store | 6:00 PM
Maya Savir, On Reconciliation
Bookends is honored to host human rights worker for a conversation about her book (2017), newly translated and available in English. In a powerful foreward, writes that offers a new language for imagining the future of Israelis and Palestinians, one grounded in political imagination, recognition, and equality. Followed by a book signing.
Doors and minibar open at 5:30PM
Getting here: We are located at 1620 Orrington Avenue, in downtown Evanston, just one block east of the Davis Street Metra and CTA public transit stops. There is metered street parking as well as numerous parking garages nearby.
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has been a human rights and peace activist for all her adult life. Maya currently serves as Israel country director for Search for Common Ground, the largest international organization dedicated to peace building. A professional in humanitarian and development work, she spent a decade working in Africa, where the stories of Rwandans and South Africans she met inspired her to write . Maya is the author of two works of adult fiction, one work of adult nonfiction, one young adult novel, and three children’s books. The daughter of Oslo Accords architect Uri Savir, Maya lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and four children.
is the author of a half-dozen books, including the story collection The Task of This Translator and the novel Captives. His translation of Asaf Schur's Motti won the 2013 Risa Domb/Porjes Hebrew-English Translation Prize. His own writing has been translated into nearly twenty languages. Todd teaches Liberal Arts and Creative Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
is an academic, writer, and researcher and holds a Ph.D., MA, and BA from the University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science. His dissertation and first book project – “The Queer Enemy in the Sectarian Order: Homophobia, Religion, and Stalemate in Lebanon” – draws on more than two years of on-site ethnographic fieldwork and investigates how homophobia blocks democratization and reproduces sectarian rule in the wake of the 2019 Lebanon Revolution. Specializing in the modern Middle East, Omar’s research converges on the interdisciplinary study of sexuality, geopolitics, civil war, and political transition.
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Bookends & Beginnings, 1620 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, United States
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