Past Events

An Evening with A.B. Yehoshua
Place, peoples and politics in the works of A. B. Yehoshua

Tuesday 26th February 2013
5.00 pm

REGRETFULLY CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES

Room V111
SOAS, Vernon Square Campus
Penton Rise, London, WC1X 9EW


Jewish Book Week 2013
A.B. Yehoshua talks with Jonathan Freedland about his latest book, The Retrospective

Sunday 24th February 2013
8.00pm

Sunday, 24 February 2013 - 8:00pm Sunday, 24 February 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: Hall 1

http://www.jewishbookweek.com/events/ab-yehoshua-retrospective

Ilene Prusher talks at the Frontline Club, London
Patrick Cockburn, Charles Glass and Ilene Prusher discuss The Future of Fixers in Foreign Reporting

Tuesday 13th November 2012
7:00pm

For more information visit the Frontline Club website:

http://tinyurl.com/dyptxop


Can Two Walk Together?
A Play by A.B. Yehoshua

Thursday 10th May 2012

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No Place Like Home
Exhibition by Judah Passow

Wednesday 1st February 2012

http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/judah-passow


Limmud Festival 2011
A.B. Yehoshua speaks at Cambridge Day Limmud

Sunday 6th November 2011

A.B. Yehoshua will appear for two talks - "Is there any continuation of the Zionist Revolution?" & "Literature and Culture", in conversation with Nicholas de Lange

 

See timetable here:  http://www.limmud.org/day/cambridge/

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe
Book reading at Jewish Book Week 2011

Sunday 27th February 2011

Readings of passages from Tales from the Secret Annexe – the short stories written by Anne whilst in hiding – will bring to life her precocious talent as a writer. These excerpts will be read during a Jewish Book Week event, Sunday 27 February at 12:30pm.


Pictures, Passions and Eye; A Life At Sotheby's by Michel Strauss
Book Launch at Sotheby's

Monday 7th February 2011

Michel Strauss’s memoirs will be launched on Monday 7 February at Sotheby’s at the preview of the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 8 February 2011.

THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY

 


Holocaust Memorial Day
Gillian Walnes, director of Anne Frank Trust UK, to speak on BBC Radio 2 Aled Jones Program

Sunday 23rd January 2011
7.30am

Gillian Walnes will read an extract from Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe on the Aled Jones Program, BBC Radio 2.


Totally Jewish Competition
5 Copies of Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe to be won

Thursday 6th January 2011

On Exile and Language
London Review Bookshop World Literature Weekend

Saturday 19th June 2010
16.00

Eli Amir - Tahar ben Jelloun - Atiq Rahimi

Full info here

 


Writers in Exile
Waterstones Islington with Refugee Week

Friday 18th June 2010
18:30 - 20:30

Eli Amir and Atiq Rahimi

Full info here


Home and Identity
Baghdad and Exile with Eli Amir

Thursday 17th June 2010
20:00

Book Signing at Waterstone's Harrow

Saturday 20th March 2010

Sagheer Afzal will be signing copies of his debut novel instore.

Waterstone's Harrow
60-62 St Ann's Road
Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 1JX


Jewish Book Week 2010
Eli Amir speaks at Jewish Book Week 2010

Thursday 4th March 2010
5:30

 


Sephardi Centre
Eli Amir speaks at the Sephardi Centre

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
7:30 pm

Click here to see event flyer for details


Middle East Centre
Eli Amir talks at the Middle East Centre, Oxford

Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Time TBC

St Antony’s College, Oxford


Oxford University Israeli Cultural Society
Eli Amir talks at the Oxford University Israeli Cultural Society

Tuesday 2nd March 2010
8.00 pm

Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church College, Oxford

Click here to see event flyer for details


SOAS University
Eli Amir talks at SOAS University

Monday 1st March 2010
7.00 pm TBC

Eli Amir talks about his novel The Dove Flyer.
Organised by the Israel Society and Middle East Society.

10 Thornhaugh Street
London, WC1H 0XG


Book Signing at Waterstone's Leicester

Saturday 27th February 2010
12.00 pm

Sagheer Afzal will be signing copies of his debut novel instore.

 

Waterstone's Leicester
26 Market Street
Leicester, LE1 6DP


Book Signing at Waterstone's Luton

Saturday 20th February 2010
12.00 pm

Sagheer Afzal will be signing copies of his debut novel instore.

Waterstone's Luton
36 George Street
Luton, LU1 2AZ


Book Signing at Waterstone's Preston

Saturday 13th February 2010

Sagheer Afzal will be signing copies of his debut novel instore.

 

Waterstone's Preston
3-5 Fishergate
Preston, PR1 3LJ


Samir El-Youssef at the Hay Festival

Saturday 23rd May 2009
5.30pm

Samir El-Youssef and Brian Chikwava chaired by Georgina Godwin

Caine Prize-winner Chikwava’s Harare North isCaine Prize-winner Chikwava’s Harare North is an original and brilliant tale of illegal immigration into London. El-Youssef ’s The Illusion of Return displaces his Palestinian characters to America and to London.

Hay Festival, Dream Stage
£4


Internation PEN's Free the Word! Festival
Beyond Faith and Reason

Thursday 16th April 2009
7:30pm

Samir El-youssef joins with other authors including Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Tariq Ali, and Commonwealth Prize winner Tahmima Anam for an evening of cross cultural dialogue.


Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT


Bath Literature Festival
Samir El-Youssef in conversation with Sulaiman Addonia

Thursday 5th March 2009
4:30pm

Guildhall, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW

Click here for more information.


Cambridge University
A.B. Yehoshua speaks at Cambridge University

Tuesday 3rd March 2009
12.00pm

Jew, Israeli and Zionist: Honing the Concept

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, room 9


Cambridge University
A.B. Yehoshua speaks at Cambridge University

Tuesday 3rd March 2009
5.00pm

From Mythology to History: the later novels of A.B. Yehoshua

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, room 9


Bath Literature Festival
A.B. Yehoshua talks at the Bath Literature Festival

Monday 2nd March 2009
1:00pm

Guildhall, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW

Click here for more information.


Jewish Book Week 2009
A.B. Yehoshua will give the closing talk to Jewish Book Week

Sunday 1st March 2009
8:30pm


Jewish Book Week 2009
Samir El-youssef in conversation with Seth Freedman

Sunday 1st March 2009
12.30pm

Samir El-Youssef and Seth Freedman discuss Difficult Relationships

Chair Matthew Reisz

Click here for more information


Oxford University
A.B. Yehoshua will be speaking at Oxford University

Thursday 26th February 2009
5:30pm

From Mythology to History, the later novels of A.B. Yehoshua

Somerville, Margaret Thatcher Centre, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DR


The Forum
A.B. Yehoshua speaks on The Forum

Saturday 14th February 2009

Hear A.B. Yehoshua speaking on the BBC World Service program The Forum.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1246_the_forum/page2.shtml


Hornsey Library Event
Samir El-Youssef will be discussing and signing copies of his latest novel A Treaty of Love

Thursday 29th January 2009
7.00pm

Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, Crouch End, London N8 9JA

Free event, refreshments.

Bookings: 0208 489 1429


Frontline Club Talk
Judah Passow in conversation with Jon Levy

Wednesday 23rd April 2008
7:30pm

Jewish Book Week 2008
Jonathan Rabb and Jeb Rubenfeld discuss writing thrillers and reinterpreting history, chaired by Marcel Berlins

Sunday 2nd March 2008
2:00pm

Bath Literature Festival 2008
Samir El-Youseff in conversation with Jacqueline Rose on literature as a form of dissidence

Saturday 1st March 2008
7:00pm

Jewish Book Week 2008
Judah Passow and Lisa Goldman discuss

Wednesday 27th February 2008
7:00pm

House of Commons Talk - Sari Nusseibeh
Facilitated by Michael Gove MP

Tuesday 26th February 2008
6:00 - 7:00pm

Grimmond Room
Portcullis House
Parliment 
London SW1



Jewish Book Week 2008
Shlomo Avineri in conversation with Alan Ryan on Isaiah Berlin: Great writers of the 20th Century

Monday 25th February 2008
7:00pm, 8:30pm

Bath Literature Festival 2008
Sari Nusseibeh in conversation with Tom Sperlinger

Monday 25th February 2008
6:30pm

Jewish Book Week 2008
Sari Nusseibeh interviewed by Jon Snow

Tuesday 13th November 2007
7:00pm

Chair: Dr Charles TrippChair: Dr Charles Tripp

 

 

5:00pm Reception

5.30pm Lecture  

                                                                                        

London Middle East Institute, London, U.K