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Details: Monday, August 16 2021, 6 - 8pm Eastern Cost: $10 donation - Join Middle East Children’s Alliance & Just World Events virtually for a summer meal prepared by Vivien Sansour and Laila El-Haddad, together in Laila’s garden. In this exclusive seasonal cooking demonstration, they will discuss resilience against both the physical and culinary partitions of the occupation – as well as its attempts to destroy diversity of food. In this moment of new imagining for Palestine, how can we create a plate that threads us together?
And celebrating the 3rd edition of Laila El-Haddad's book, The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey!
LAILA EL-HADDAD is co-author of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey. A Palestinian American journalist, food justice advocate and public speaker, Laila is the author of a number of books and co-editor of Gaza Unsilenced (2015). Through her work as a writer, storyteller, and culinary documentarian, she provides much-needed insight into the Palestinian experience. Born in Kuwait to Gaza-Palestinian parents, Laila currently lives with her family in Maryland. You can purchase the newest edition of The Gaza Kitchen here https://justworldbooks.com/books/the-gaza-kitchen-third-edition/?emci=ec69150a-3fe5-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=b8ab1a4d-92e5-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=8290232
VIVIEN SANSOUR is an artist, storyteller, researcher, conservationist and founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. A culinary historian and enthusiastic cook, Vivien brings threatened varieties “back to the dinner table to become part of our living culture rather than a relic of the past.” She uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for seed conservation and the protection of agro-biodiversity as a cultural/political act. Born in Jerusalem, Vivien lives in Bethlehem, Palestine and Los Angeles, USA.
Sponsored by: Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) and Just World Events;
Contact: meca@mecaforpeace.org