Two great events coming up in Chicago and New York:
This Saturday at lunch, the Arab Jewish Partnership is having a fundraiser for clean water in the Gaza Strip (the Maia project from the Middle East Children’s Alliance). Rashid Khalidi will be speaking. Also Ashley Bates. From the facebook announcement:
The Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace & Justice in the Middle East needs your help to raise $12,000 for the Maia Project of the Middle East Children’s Alliance. The project is working to build water purification and desalination units in schools throughout the Gaza Strip.
Please join us at the beautiful Alhambra Palace for delicious Middle Eastern food and hear from our esteemed guests!
Tickets: $50 general admission, $25 for students/low-income.
And here’s something I’m going to try to get to the following week in New York. On the night of March 14, Deborah Eisenberg, a supporter of Jewish Voice for Peace, author of Under the 82d Airborne and of short stories that defined a generation of New Yorkers, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, will read from a new Verso collection, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg. A lot of history converging that night.
