Coming events at the London Review of Bookshop....
18 October: Mourid Barghouti
The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti has published fourteen books of poetry and the autobiographical narrative I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury), for which he is best known in this country and which Edward Said described as “one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement we now have”. Barghouti will give an introductory talk on the nature of exile, read his poetry (in English) and a short extract from I Saw Ramallah, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Award for Literature in 1997. Ruth Padel will chair the discussion.
Ilan Pappe in conversation with Omar Al-Qattan
Monday 16 October at 6.30 p.m.
A London Review of Books sponsored event. The Israeli historian Ilan Pappe and frequent contributor to the LRB will discuss his new book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in which he argues passionately for the recognition of this tragedy.
The event is being held at the Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building (basement), UCL, Gower Street, London WC1. Tickets, available on the door, cost £5 (£2 concessions).
