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Oct
15
2024

10/21 Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan in Conversation

Monday, October 21st at 7pm ET:

Join authors Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan with Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel for a conversation on the psychological and emotional dynamics affecting our respective communities, the movement for Palestinian liberation and the implications for future political horizons. How do our feelings affect our political choices? How do we defuse and redirect Jewish fear in light of its increasing weaponization? What is—and should be—the role of both mourning and rage in Palestinian and in Jewish communal politics? How do we guard against political nihilism?

This event will take place at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 W. 64th St. in Manhattan. Doors will open at 6:30pm ET and the event will begin at 7pm ET.

Free for Jewish Currents sustaining members, $18 suggested donation for non-members. Livestream will be available, please indicate your preference for in-person or remote attendance when registering! Livestream information will be sent out to attendees before the event start time.

Hala Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists’ City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024. A columnist for The Guardian, her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. She is the honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University and is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia where she is founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice.

Arielle Angel is the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents.

P.S. We also wanted to remind you about a co-sponsored event taking place this Thursday! Comics & Human Rights will feature United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri, renowned artist Omar Khouri, graphic journalist Shay Mirk, and FIAN International right to food advocate Emily Mattheisen, moderated by Kate Kelp-Stebbins of the University of Oregon Comic & Cartoon Studies program. This panel will discuss the first UN human rights report that uses graphic reportage, titled “Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty” and will address the power of comics to convey communities’ horrors and hopes, focusing on the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Learn more and register to attend in person or online.