Category — Book Club

We’ve published a book! “Bareed Mista3jil” is a collection of 41 true stories from our community. The English version will be available in bookstores as of May 17, 2009. The Arabic version will follow in June. Stay tuned!

Our book club this month featured a rich selection of poetry readings, the coolest of which was the spoken word poetry of Suheir Hammad’s ZaatarDiva collection. Book clubbers read, listened to, and discussed different poems of resistance, identity politics, and resilience.

Our weekly book club kicked off this month with a reading from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own followed by poetry from Cherrie Moraga and readings from the anthology This is What Lesbian Looks Like. Many interesting discussions are coming out of these inspiring texts! Join us every Monday at 5.30pm in the Meem Library for a weekly discussion and reading of a feminist or queer text.