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DESCRIPTION:What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one d
 ay? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling que
 stions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel\, The Book of Disa
 ppearance. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis d
 iscover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished\, the story unfolds 
 through alternating narrators\, Alaa\, a young Palestinian man who convers
 es with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappe
 ared\, and his Jewish neighbor\, Ariel\, a journalist struggling to unders
 tand the traumatic event.\n\nThrough these perspectives\, the novel stages
  a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is c
 ritical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza\, but neverth
 eless believes in Israel’s project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted 
 by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a
  refugee in her homeland. Ariel’s search for clues to the secret of the co
 llective disappearance and his reaction to it intimately reveal the fissur
 es at the heart of the Palestinian question.\n\nThe Book of Disappearance 
 grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Pales
 tinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized\, Antoon’s tran
 slation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers i
 nto the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel.\n\nThe discussion 
 will be led by Professor Michelle Hartman.\n\nAbout the author and transla
 tor\n\nIbtisam Azem (author) is a Palestinian short story writer\, novelis
 t\, and journalist\, based in New York. She is a senior correspondent for 
 the Arabic daily al-Araby al-Jadeed. She has published two novels in Arabi
 c. Some of her writings have been translated and published in French\, Ger
 man and English in several anthologies and journals. She is working on her
  third novel and pursuing an MA in Social Work from NYU’s Silver school.\n
 	Sinan Antoon (translator) is a poet\, novelist\, translator\, and scholar.
  He is associate professor at New York University's Gallatin School. His t
 ranslation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 Na
 tional Translation Award.\nJoin the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.c
 om/events/682575462571317/\n
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LOCATION:Octagon Room\, Islamic Studies Library\, Morrice Hall\, CA\, QC\, 
 Montreal\, H3A 0E1\, 3485 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Book discussion | The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem
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