Kashua鈥檚 free, public lecture and discussion about 鈥淭he Foreign Mother Tongue: Living and Writing as a Palestinian in Israel鈥 will begin at 3 p.m. in Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library. A book sale and signing will follow the talk at 4:30 p.m. UofL鈥檚 Jewish studies program presents the event, which also is part of the university鈥檚 Axton Reading Series.
Kashua, currently a visiting teacher at University of Illinois, earned the Prime Minister鈥檚 Prize for Literature in 2004 and the Israeli literary Bernstein Prize in 2011. He has published three novels: 鈥淒ancing Arabs,鈥 鈥淟et It Be Morning鈥 and 鈥淪econd Person Singular.鈥 The film adaptation of the autobiographical 鈥淒ancing Arabs鈥 opened the Jerusalem Film Festival last year.
Kashua also is known for the popular, groundbreaking 鈥淎rab Labor鈥 television series that provides a comedic look at a Palestinian journalist living in Israel and searching for identity. His satirical weekly personal columns in Hebrew run in the newspaper Haaretz. A 2009 documentary 鈥淪ayed Kashua — Forever Scared鈥 chronicled his family life during seven years.听
Although his talk is free, reservations are requested at . For reserved parking information, email Ranen Omer-Sherman, the Jewish Heritage Foundation for Excellence endowed chair in Judaic studies, at ranen.omersherman@louisville.edu
Other support for the College of Arts and Sciences event comes from the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence, English department, humanities division and Middle East and Islamic studies program.
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