Arab Jewish Life and Literature with Joyce Zonana

The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience presents:

Arab Jewish Life and Literature with Joyce Zonana

From the mellahs and medinas of Casablanca and Algiers to the Haras of Tunis, Cairo, and Old Baghdad, we will explore the lived and literary world of Arab Jews, including Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Albert Memmi, and Jacqueline Kahanoff, who evoke a world in which Jews were native and not “other.”

Monday, 16 May at 12:00PM EST

(Ticket: $10)

 12PM EST ◊ 7PM Jerusalem 

About the speaker:
Born in Cairo to Jewish parents, writer and literary translator Joyce Zonana is a professor emerita at the City University of New York. Her memoir, “Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile’s Journey”, was published in 2008 by the Feminist Press. Her translations include “A Land Like You” (Seagull Books), “Malicroix” (New York Review Books), and “The Beast, and Other Tales” (Northwestern University Press). She has published numerous critical studies and reviews of other Egyptian Jewish writers, including André Aciman, Lucette Lagnado, Jacqueline Kahanoff, Paula Jacques, and Yitzhak Gormezano Goren.

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