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A Mother from Gaza with Laila El-Haddad

Where
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20037
202.338.1290

When
Nov 18, 2010 starts at 6:30 pm

"A Mother From Gaza "

with

Laila El-Haddad
Blogger, Political Analyst and Social Activist

Thursday 18 November 2010
6:30 p.m.
The Palestine Center

With Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between, El-Haddad takes us into the life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it—very intensely. This book is El-Haddad’s self-curated choice of the best of her writings from December 2004 through July 2010. She was in Gaza City in 2005, watching hopefully as the Israelis prepared their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. She covered the January 2006 Palestinian elections—judged ‘free and fair’ by all international monitors; but then, she watched aghast as the Israeli government, backed by the Bush administration, moved in to punish Gaza’s 1.5 million people for the way they had voted by throwing a tough siege around the Strip.

Laila El-Haddad

is a blogger, political analyst, social activist and parent-of-two from Gaza. She got her B.A. from Duke University and her MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Since November 2004, she has authored an award-winning blog now known as Gazamom. From 2003-2006, she was the Gaza stringer for the Al-Jazeera English website. Ms. El-Haddad contributes regularly to the BBC and the Guardian Unlimited.