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The Lady from Tel Aviv with author Raba'i al-Madhoun
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“The Lady from Tel Aviv”
with
Raba’i al-Madhoun
Author
&
Elliott Colla
Translator
*A light lunch is served at 12:30 p.m. Lecture begins promptly at 1:00 p.m.
In The Lady from Tel Aviv Rabai al-Madhoun tackles the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli issue, focusing on a pivotal time of anxiety and suspicion, with tensions on the point of boiling over. The novel’s protagonists are Palestinian exile Walid Dahman, who is returning home to Gaza after many years in Europe, and Israeli Dana Ahuva, who happens to be sitting next to him on their flight into Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. Their dialogue takes the reader into the far realms of memory, history and the self.The Lady from Tel Aviv is a novel that, in its complexity, intricacy and ambiguity, avoids the dogma of ready-made ideology. Rabai al-Madhoun will read selections from his book, followed by Elliott Colla who will talk about the process of its translation.
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