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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150508T130000
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SUMMARY:Hisham Sharabi Memorial Lecture with Dr. Salim Tamari
DESCRIPTION:DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\n\nEdward Said described his native city a
 s the city of death - a grim town of pilgrimage\, fanaticism and unbearabl
 e provincialism. This portrayal was reinforced by a large number of visiti
 ng luminaries\, including Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad)\, Falih Rifki (Zei
 tundagi\, 1915) and Selma Ekrem (Harim Days). Yet in the work of native wr
 iters like Serene al Husseini\, Khalil Sakakini\, and Wasif Jawhariyyeh we
  see an alternative Jerusalem - a libertine and even hedonistic city of jo
 is de vivre and abandonment.\n\nJawhariyyeh in his two volume memoirs (rel
 eased in English lately as The Storyteller of Jerusalem and co-edited by D
 r. Issam Nassar) introduces us to the city of the carnivalesque. It includ
 es the syncretic religious celebrations of Nabi Musa and St. George\; the 
 religious ceremonials of Holy Saturday and the Virgin Mary\; the bordellos
  of the old city and the garçonnières of the bachelor patricians\; the m
 usical bands and theatrical groups\; and the literary cafes fashioned afte
 r the Vagabond Café of Is’af al Nashashibi and Khalil Mutran. Dr. Salim
  Tamari will examine these features of the ‘grim city’ and try to answ
 er the question as to why libertine Jerusalem has been camouflaged\, ignor
 ed or repressed in the majority of writings by social historians and trave
 l literature.\n\nEvent details: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/Even
 tDetails/i/50582\n\n
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