Literary Evenings

Lectures | Literary Evenings | Partial Calendar of 2010–2011 Events

This platform brings together authors, academics and critics to examine new books and the social and cultural issues they raise. The following list includes some of the panel discussions (in Hebrew):

The Sharia Courts: Between Adjudication and Identity by Iyad Zahalka / Israel Bar Association Press / Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Economic Peace: Foundation or Distraction / Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev: Justice without Government by Clinton Bailey / Yale University Press / Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Time of the Green Line: A Jewish Political Essay by Yehouda Shenhav / Am Oved Publishers / Monday, March 22, 2010

They Called him Yaap: Jacob Arnon from Amsterdam to Jerusalem by Yossi Goldstein and Aryeh Dayan / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House / Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Al Tagidu be Gat: The Palestinian Naqba in Hebrew Poetry by Hanan Hever (ed.) / Sedek / April 28, 2010

The Myth of Niobe: Ethics and Violence in Contemporary Myths by David Ohana / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House / July 12, 2010

Exposed to Dialogue: Encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel by Maya Kahanoff / Publishing House of Ben-Gurion University / July 18, 2010

Visibility in Immigration: Body, Gaze, Representation by Edna Lomsky-Feder and Tamar Rapoport (eds.) / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House / September 2, 2010

Israeli Identities: Jews and Arabs Facing the Mirror and the Other by Yair Auron / Resling Publishing / September 5, 2010

Progress and its Discontents by Paul Medes-Flohr / Am-Oved Publishing House / December 23, 2010