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Austin Jewish Book Fair
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BOOK FAIR: Key Note Event
with Jeffrey Goldberg and Lawrence Wright
Date: November 11, 2007
Time: 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
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Contact: Lisa Apfelberg
Phone: (512) 735-8076
Email: lisa.apfelberg@shalomaustin.org
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KEY NOTE EVENT: IRAQ, AL QAEDA, AND THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL
with Jeffrey Goldberg and Lawrence Wright
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You won't want to miss this night with friends and colleagues Jeffrey Goldberg and Lawrence Wright! They will discuss the intricacies of policies both domestic and in the Middle East as we learn and think about America's and Israel's positions in the world. Dessert will be served by the Israeli Book Club.
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Sunday, November 11 • 7:30 PM
JCC Community Hall
$12 General Admission/$10 Students, Seniors, JCC Members
Ticket purchase deadline: Saturday, November 10
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About the Author
Jeffrey Goldberg is the Washington correspondent to the New Yorker and has served as the magazine's Middle East correspondent. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Forward, Slate, the New Republic, and the Jerusalem Post. He frequently appears on PBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and NPR news shows. Goldberg has spent significant time covering the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, reporting from such places as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, and Upper Egypt. A native New Yorker, he currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Pamela, and their three children.
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About the Book
Prisoners: A Muslim and A Jew Across the Middle East Divide is an account of life in a harsh desert prison in the Negev desert-mean, overcrowded, and violent-and of Goldberg's extraordinary dialogue with Rafiq, a Palestinian insurgent, which continues to this day. Prisoners describes how these two men-both of them loyal sons of their warring peoples-confront their religious, cultural, and political differences in ways that allowed them to finally acknowledge a true, if necessarily tenuous, friend-ship. A riveting, deeply affecting book, Prisoners is spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candor about the truths that lie buried within the animosities of the Middle East.
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Photo by Kenny Braun
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About the Author
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Along with the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for his book Looming Tower, Wright is the recipient of numerous awards for magazine reporting. His one-man play, My Trip to al-Qaeda, enjoyed a sold-out six-week run at the Culture Project in Soho. Wright has written six books, both fiction and non-fiction. He lives in Austin, Texas where he plays keyboard for the blues band, Who Do.
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About the Book
In the exhaustively researched The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Wright follows al-Qaeda's path to the 9/11 attacks. He begins withthe observation that, despite an impressiverecord of terror and assassination, post-WWII, Islamic militants failed to establish theocracies in any Arab country. Al-Qaeda, formed in Afghanistan in 1988 and ledby Osama bin Laden, pursued a different agenda, blaming America for Islam's problems. Wright's step-by-step description of al-Qaeda's attacks reveals that planning terror is a sloppybusiness, leaving a trail of clues that, in the case of 9/11, raised many suspicions among individuals in the FBI, CIA, and NSA.
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| Co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Community Relations Council of the JCAA, and in cooperation with the Jewish Book Council and Moadon Hasefer, the Israeli Book Club. |
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