Thursday, May 16, 2:30 PM - in person at the Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St., Lewiston ME (map)

A Conversation With Nora Lester Murad

Come join for a passage reading, interview, and Q&A with the author of Ida in the Midde, co-author of Rest in My Shade, and editor of I Found Myself in Palestine. Open to all ages!

Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. Her young adult novel, Ida in the Middle, won the 2023 Arab American Book Award, the 2024 Middle East Book Award, a Skipping Stones Honor Award, and was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Jane Addams Peace Association Children’s Book Award. She edited I Found Myself in Palestine: Stories of Love and Renewal From Around the Globe (2020) and co-authored Rest in My Shade: A Poem About Roots (2018). While living in Palestine, Nora co-founded Dalia Association, Palestine’s community foundation and Aid Watch Palestine, a community-driven aid accountability initiative in Gaza. Nora is a Policy Member of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, serves on the Board of Visualizing Palestine, and supports other social justice issues. From a Jewish family, Nora is the mother of three Palestinian daughters and lives with her husband in Massachusetts on the traditional homelands of the Eastern Woodland indigenous peoples.

Check out her new comic How To Justify The Genocide of Palestinians in 14 Easy Steps: A Graphical Guide and find more of her works on her website!