Upcoming Opportunities to Meet Encounters Editors and Contributors

By Nesreen | April 5th, 2008 | No Comments

If you are going to be in New York City in April or Washington DC in May, we have two Encounters events lined up that may interest you. We enjoy these events for the chance it gives us to meet readers who have already come across the book and want to share a favorite story, as well as those who want to learn about the Middle East but haven’t known where to start.

The event in NYC, by the way, features writers of some of the best humorist stories in the collection. Peter Wortsman in “Holy Land Blues,” recounts his first pilgrimage to Israel as a young man in 1975, a time when, according to Wortsman, innocence and romance prevailed over the bleak images we know today.

In his tale, Chris Kipiniak tells us about a single encounter he had buying a rug in Cairo, where an animated and relentless salesman and listless young rug weavers tell the greater story, with much levity, of hospitality in the Arab world.

Saturday, April 26 2008
12:00pm - 1:45pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker)
New York City

Bowery Arts and Science presents- Bowery Book Party Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture - That Help You Understand the Region Edited by Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman, published by Solas House, FREE!

Editor Nesreen Khashan, together with contributors Peter Wortsman (NYC native and resident) and Chris Kipiniak (NYC resident) discuss the narratives of Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture that Help You Understand the Region.

Our Washington DC Event will be held: Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Busboys and Poets
4251 South Campbell Ave.
Arlington, VA
3 PM Discussion at Shirlington Public Library
4:30 PM Signing at Busboys and Poets- Shirlington

Editors Jim Bowman and Nesreen Khashan, and contributor (TBA) discuss and sign their new book, Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region.