Hanin Cafe: Gaza Fundraising Event

February 7, 2010 · Posted in Event · Comment 
February 20, 2010
7:00 pmto10:30 pm

St Paul’s Church and Centre
Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1JP

FOOD - MUSIC - CRAFTS

Local musicians and some from further afield
Folk - Georgian - Arabic Song

Tickets £15/£10 concessions from
Janet - 01223 690157 0r 07751 600315
Mo -  07792 320416 

Proceeds to Medical Aid for Palestinians and
al Beit al Samed (grassroots Gaza charity)

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Talk: Dancing with the Enemy

February 1, 2010 · Posted in Event · Comment 
February 9, 2010
7:30 pm

St Catherine’s College, Rushmore Room
Tuesday 9th February, 7.30pm

(Organised by CU Shirley Society)

Samir El-Youssef is a Palestinan writer and critic. Next week he comes to Cambridge to deliver a talk entitled: ‘Dancing with the Enemy: Fiction and the Palestine/Israel Political Landscape’

Samir was born in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon.

His father father is a Sunni and his mother is from the only Shi’ite Palestinian family.

He writes in both Arabic and English. In 2004, he co-authored ‘Gaza Blues: Different Stories’ with Israeli author Etgar Keret. Since then he has written two novels in English: ‘The Illusion of Return’ (2007) and ‘A Treaty of Love’ (2008)

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