News, Events & Sneak Previews
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EVENTS
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Spiro Ark
Wednesday 23 July, 7.30 pm
25 Enford Street, W1H 1DW
Daphna Sharfman on The Secret of Coexistence
Jews and Arabs in Haifa during the British Mandate
in Palestine, 1920-1948.
 Is peace and coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions in the Middle East possible? Haifa proves that it is!
This book examines the secret of a successful coexistence, the “Haifa Model,” through using different perspectives, thus creating a fascinating and intriguing picture.
In “The Secret of Coexistence” we find three essays discussing the ensemble of life in the city during the British Mandate. The writers - Daphna Sharfman, Eli Nachmias, Johnny Mansour - made a great choice by concentrating on this relatively short period of history, which contributed to the building of the country, the developing of both the Arab community and the Jewish settlement and of course the building and prosperity of Haifa.
“This is a comprehensive book, worthy to be found on the bookshelf of anyone who takes an interest in Haifa’s and Israel’s history.” Professor Ya’akov Goldstein, Haifa University
Dr. Daphna Sharfman - Chair of the Political Science department, Western Galilee College, author of books on human rights, international politics, women and politics.
£7 / £5 for full time students and Spiro Ark membership card holders
Tel. 020 7723 9991 Fax 020 7723 8191 Email education@spiroark.org
www.spiroark.org
London Review Bookshop
Tuesday 19 August at 7.00 pm
14 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL.
Aleksandar Hemon
 The Lazarus Project (Picador) is an epic narrative born from a historical event – the 1908 killing of a 19 year old Jewish immigrant by the chief of Chicago police. The story follows Vladimir Brik, a Bosnian-American writer, who, a century later, gets funding to travel to Eastern Europe to unearth what really happened.
Hemon was stranded in the United States in 1992 when war broke out in his native Sarajevo and completed his first short story within three years of learning to write in English. He contributes regularly to the New Yorker, Granta and the Paris Review; his first two novels, The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man have been widely praised.
Tickets £6: book on line or call 020 7269 9030
Intelligence Squared
Tuesday 16 September at 6.45 pm
Central Hall Westminster
Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH
Paths to Peace: Proposals to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
 Dr Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinian Legislative Council Member, Palestinian Territories.
Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinian democracy activist who represents the Independent Palestine list on the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Yael Dayan: Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv, Peace Now Activist.
Efraim Halevy: Former Director of Mossad and the Israeli National Security Council.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP: Former Secretary of State for Defence and former Foreign Secretary.
Remaining speakers and chair to be announced.
With the Weidenfeld Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Tickets £25 (no concessions)
To book tickets,
visit the website, call 020 7494 3345 or E-mail:info@intelligencesquared.com
CONNECTING CONVERSATIONS
Thursday 25 September, 8.30 pm
The Institute of Psychoanalysis
112a Shirland Road, London W9
Children's Laureate Michael Rosen in conversation with Hannah Solemani
 Michael Rosen talks to psychoanalyst Hannah Solemani about his work and his versatility as a communicator. They will also discuss the part reading plays in the emotional life of children with particular reference to Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy and Michael Rosen's Sad Book.
Michael Rosen has written over 140 books including children's poetry and picture books. He received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children's literature in 1997 and became Children's Laureate in 2007. He is well known for books such as We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Michael Rosen's Sad Book. He presents on TV and radio, as well as performing, teaching and lecturing.
Hannah Solemani is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She also works with adolescents at the Brent Centre for Young People and teaches at the Tavistock Institute and the Institute of Psychoanalysis.
CONNECTING CONVERSATIONS is a series of events at which psychoanalysts talk to leading writers and practitioners from other disciplines such as literature, visual art, history, sociology and social policy. With a level of debate and dialogue easily accessible to a wider audience, the series aims to create an ongoing series of 'events' where ideas can be explored and new connections developed, both between ideas and disciplines, as well as between people. Connecting conversations is produced by The Rowan Arts Project. For more information see www.connectingconversations.org
The series is produced by The Rowan Arts Project and other partners including The Institute of Psychoanalysis, The Freud Museum and The Women’s Therapy Centre.
Tickets: £12/£6 concessions (includes a glass of wine or juice).
To book: Free online booking or call 07787 814316
Other forthcoming events:
Writer and literary critic Al Alvarez in conversation with Ted Jacobs
Sunday 2 November 2008 7.00-8.30pm
Al Alvarez talks about the writer's search for a voice
London Jewish Cultural Centre
Thursday 16 October, 8.00 pm
Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road, NW11 7SX
 An Evening with Thomas Keneally
Entertaining speaker, and author of more than 30 novels and more than 10 works of non-fiction, Thomas Keneally is perhaps best known for writing SCHINDLER'S ARK, which won him the Booker Prize. Come and hear him and take the opportunity to purchase his latest book, SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER.
Tickets £17.50 in advance, £20 on the door
admin@ljcc.org.uk or 8457 5000
Nehru Centre
12 November 2008, 7.00 pm
8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF
Edna Fernandes discusses The Last Jews of Kerala.
Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and
distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the
White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries.
Only now, when their combined number has diminished to less
than 50 and they are on the threshold of extinction, have the two remaining Jewish communities in south India begun to realise that their destiny, and their undoing, is the same. Living in Cochin alongside this last generation, Edna Fernandes tells their story from the illustrious arrival of their ancestors from the court of King Solomon, through their long heyday of wealth, tolerance and privilege to their present twilit existence, as synagogues crumble into disuse and weddings disappear, leaving only funerals.
For more information on events in London and around the UK, visit the On tour pages of the programme.
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