Ivri-NASAWI presents
Conversations on Roots & Identity 5: Iraq with Joyce Dallal, Lev Hakak and
Salaam Yousif.
Thursday, March 29 L.A. 7:30 pm
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 Venice Blvd., Venice CA 90291
Tickets $7 general, $5 members of Ivri-NASAWI, Beyond Baroque.
RSVP: (323) 650-3157
This popular series raises issues of cultural roots, literary explorations
and adjusting to a bicultural American and Middle Eastern identity. Part five
of the series features American-born multimedia artist Joyce Dallal, who
reflects on the journey of her Iraqi Jewish parents from Baghdad to the
U.S.A., her father's past as a member of Iraq's Communist Party, and her own
struggle to find the meaning of home.
Lev Hakak is a Baghdad-born fiction writer and UCLA professor of Hebrew whose
work reflects his journey from Iraq to Israel and on to the States. A poet,
novelist and critic, among his many works are the novel, "Strangers Among
Brothers." His poetry appears in the anthology, "Keys to the Garden, New
Israeli Writing" (City Lights 1996) Hakak was one of the first Mizrahi
writers of the generation that grew up in Israel to confront the social
issues confronting Mizrahi Jews through his academic and literary activities.
Salaam Yousif is a Baghdadi-born scholar and essayist who reflects on Iraqi
writing, at home and in exile.
Tickets $7, $5 members of Ivri-NASAWI and Beyond Baroque. Seating is limited;
you must reserve by phone or email. Call for directions. RSVP to (323)
650-3157 or email
ivrinasawi@...
Ivri-NASAWI, founded in 1996, is a national grassroots organization which
promotes the arts and cultures of Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews and other cultures of
the Middle East. Visit www.ivri-nasawi.org.
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