Presented by Darchei Noam's Israel Engagement Committee

Sayed Kashua is a well-known Israeli Arab citizen. He is the author of four novels – Dancing Arabs, Let It Be Morning, Second Person Singular and Track Changes – all written originally in Hebrew, for which he has received multiple literary awards. His satiric television series Avodah Aravit ("Arab Labor") was enormously popular and critically acclaimed, and his new series Madrasa (“School”) continues the exploration of Jewish and Arab relations that characterizes most of his work. 

For many years Kashua was also a widely read weekly columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. In 2014, he and his family left Israel because they no longer believed in a future in which “Arabs and Jews could share the country equally.” Kashua is completing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Washington University and will join the faculty of Emerson College in Boston this fall.

This event is co-sponsored by Reconstructionists Expanding the Conversation on Israel/Palestine.