Best of: Susan Abulhawa "Israel: More than Apartheid."

This keynote, "Israel more than Apartheid" is from the 2019 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian novelist, poet and essayist. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury, 2010), became an instant international bestseller and was translated into 28 languages. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), has likewise been translated into 26 languages. Abulhawa’s first poetry collection, My Voice Sought The Wind (Just World Books), was published in 2013, and she has contributed to several anthologies. Her third novel will be published first in German and then in Swedish, in the Spring of 2019. The English version will follow soon after.

In 2001, she founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children. Before her writing career, Abulhawa had a successful career as a researcher in biomedical science. She is the daughter of refugees from the 1967 Six Day War, when her family's land was seized and Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. She was born in Kuwait, raised between there and Jerusalem, then in the Carolinas, where she completed high school, university and graduate school. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter, their dogs and cats.

Transcript: https://www.wrmea.org/2019-may/keynote-israel-more-than-apartheid.html

Video: https://youtu.be/UYvb8YAvHL8