Event: Benefit Reading for Seeds Of Peace (09/18/06)
Who: Diana Abu-Jaber, Elisa Albert, Edith Chevat,
Helen Engelhardt, David Gates, Masha Hamilton, Nathalie Handal, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Bernice L. McFadden, Wendy Orange, Evelyn Shakir, Joan Silber, Cathy Sultan, Katharine Weber
Where: McNally Robinson In New York City, 50 Prince Street, New York NY, (212) 274-1160.
When: Monday, September 18th, 7:00 PM
What: Benefit reading for Seeds Of Peace. "Founded in 1993, Seeds of Peace is dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence."
Diana Abu-Jaber, author of The Language of Baklava, Crescent, and Arabian Jazz
Elisa Albert, author of the short story collection How This Night Is Different
Edith Chevat, author of Love Lesson and Lost, senior editor of Girls, An Anthology
Helen Engelhardt, poet, writer and storyteller who serves on the Boards of the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment and The Dialogue Project
David Gates, author of the novels Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Masha Hamilton, former foreign correspondent and author of the novels Staircase of a Thousand Steps, The Distance Between Us, and the forthcoming The Camel Bookmobile
Nathalie Handal, author of Spell (poetry CD) and The Lives of Rain
Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of the novels Married Life, History on a Personal Note, On Mermaid Avenue, A Disturbance In Once Place, Pure Poetry, Hester Among the Ruins, and An Almost Perfect Moment
Bernice L. McFadden, author of eight novels, two of which are published under the pseudonym "Geneva Holliday"
Wendy Orange, former Mideast correspondent for Tikkun and author of Coming Home to Jerusalem, a memoir
Evelyn Shakir, author of Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States and a forthcoming collection of short stories about Lebanese-American women
Joan Silber, author of Ideas from Heaven: A Ring of Stories, nominated for a National Book Award
Cathy Sultan, author of A Beirut Heart: One Woman's War and Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides
Katharine Weber, author of Triangle, The Little Women, The Music Lesson, and Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Tags: Seeds of Change, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Diana Abu-Jaber, Elisa Albert, Edith Chevat, Helen Engelhardt, David Gates, Masha Hamilton, Nathalie Handel, Binnie+Kirshenbaum, Bernice McFadden, Wendy Orange, Evelyn Shakir, Joan Silber, Cathy Sultan, Katharine Weber, Tikkun
Helen Engelhardt, David Gates, Masha Hamilton, Nathalie Handal, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Bernice L. McFadden, Wendy Orange, Evelyn Shakir, Joan Silber, Cathy Sultan, Katharine Weber
Where: McNally Robinson In New York City, 50 Prince Street, New York NY, (212) 274-1160.
When: Monday, September 18th, 7:00 PM
What: Benefit reading for Seeds Of Peace. "Founded in 1993, Seeds of Peace is dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence."
Diana Abu-Jaber, author of The Language of Baklava, Crescent, and Arabian Jazz
Elisa Albert, author of the short story collection How This Night Is Different
Edith Chevat, author of Love Lesson and Lost, senior editor of Girls, An Anthology
Helen Engelhardt, poet, writer and storyteller who serves on the Boards of the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment and The Dialogue Project
David Gates, author of the novels Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Masha Hamilton, former foreign correspondent and author of the novels Staircase of a Thousand Steps, The Distance Between Us, and the forthcoming The Camel Bookmobile
Nathalie Handal, author of Spell (poetry CD) and The Lives of Rain
Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of the novels Married Life, History on a Personal Note, On Mermaid Avenue, A Disturbance In Once Place, Pure Poetry, Hester Among the Ruins, and An Almost Perfect Moment
Bernice L. McFadden, author of eight novels, two of which are published under the pseudonym "Geneva Holliday"
Wendy Orange, former Mideast correspondent for Tikkun and author of Coming Home to Jerusalem, a memoir
Evelyn Shakir, author of Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States and a forthcoming collection of short stories about Lebanese-American women
Joan Silber, author of Ideas from Heaven: A Ring of Stories, nominated for a National Book Award
Cathy Sultan, author of A Beirut Heart: One Woman's War and Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides
Katharine Weber, author of Triangle, The Little Women, The Music Lesson, and Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Tags: Seeds of Change, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Diana Abu-Jaber, Elisa Albert, Edith Chevat, Helen Engelhardt, David Gates, Masha Hamilton, Nathalie Handel, Binnie+Kirshenbaum, Bernice McFadden, Wendy Orange, Evelyn Shakir, Joan Silber, Cathy Sultan, Katharine Weber, Tikkun
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