Israel-Palestine Committee
Reading Group List

Book List
Contact is.pales@brooklynpeace.org if you’re interested in joining either group.
April 2021
- Daytime Group: Monday, April 5, 2:00 pm: “Velvet: A Novel” by Huzama Habayeb (Author), Kay Heikkinen (Translator)
- Evening Group: Monday, April 19, 6:00 pm: “The Book of Disappearance,” by Palestinian novelist Ibtisam Azem
March 2021
- Monday, March 1, 2:00 pm: Ghassan Kanafani’s novella “Return to Haifa”: pp 149–188 in “Palestine’s Children”
- Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm: Discussion of film “Til Kingdom Come,” about evangelical Christian support for Israel. The film will be released on February 25
February 2021
- Monday, Feb. 15, 6:00 pm: Paper the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently issued, explaining why Israel is an apartheid state Article by Nathan Thrall on the same topic.
January 2021
- Monday, Jan 18, 6:00 pm: Discussion of film “Mayor” (in Arabic and English with subtitles. 1 hour 29 minutes) QA with the filmmaker sponsored by the magazine “Jewish Currents.
- Monday, Jan. 25, 2:00 pm: “The Optimist: A social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad”, by Tamir Sorek. The second half (Chapter 6–Chapter 10)