19th LMM Book Club - Raja Shehadeh
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Salaam All,
Thank you everyone for attending the April meetup.
Please make sure you adhere to the following:
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Please don't just turn up to the meeting unless you are on the attending list, it makes things unmanageable if unexpected people turn up.
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Also reading the book is important, even if you read a couple of chapters, as it allows us to have relevant discussion.
Time to announce next month's book. Here is next month's selection:
Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
This is an extraordinary and moving memoir by the award-winning author of "Palestinian Walks" - updated with a new foreword. Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the state of Israel was formed in 1948 the family were driven out to the provincial town of Ramallah. There Shehadeh grew up in the shadow of his father, a leading civil rights lawyer. He vowed not to become involved in politics or law but inevitably did so and became an important activist himself. In 1985 his father was stabbed to death. The Israeli police failed to investigate the murder properly and Shehadeh, by then a lawyer, set about solving the crime that destroyed his family. In "Strangers in the House", Shehadeh recounts his troubled and complex relationship with his father and his experience of exile - of being a stranger in his own land. It is a remarkable memoir that combines the personal and political to devastating effect.
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I am restricting the number of RSVP to 20 attendees. First ten will be able to RSVP directly and the next ten I will select from the waiting list. Preference will be given to members who have attended before. If you were a 'no show' in the last couple of months then don't RSVP as I will have to remove you from the list.
We follow a strict no show policy, so please make sure you RSVP yes if you like reading and discussing books and you plan to attend. If your plans change please let us know as soon possible and at least a few days before the meeting. Previous no shows will be declined. Please also don't turn up to the meeting without RSVP.