Please join us for three dramatic readings about female rebellion in war-torn Beirut.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth avenue, room 9204
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 7pm
La Maison Francaise NYU, 16 Washington Mews
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 7pm
Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver Street, 4th floor
"The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is an intense, harrowing, and deeply disturbing memoir of a woman's sustained resistance to the world around her. Darina Al-Joundi's story of her family life and youthful extremity in Beirut, of war and its unspeakable violence, and of a culture that becomes increasingly intolerant and oppressive in the name of religion, especially of women, is told with such brutal immediacy, I found myself both moved and frightened. At once personal and historical, the book is the testament of an unrepentant rebel, who, in the end, has no choice but to leave everything and everyone behind her."—Siri Hustvedt, author of The Sorrows of an American
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