April 1, 12:00 PM EDT - Virtual
Launch event for Ahmed Masoud's Gaza-set thriller 'Vanished"
From Helena Cobban, Just World Educational - “I am thrilled to share that the plans for the (re-)launch of Ahmed Masoud's acclaimed 2014 novel, Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda, are now coming together.
The main (online) event for this launch will be a webinar that we'll present on Tuesday, April1, at Noon US-Eastern Time, featuring the author, Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah, and some other special presenters to be confirmed soon.
Register for this fine and very informative cultural event! You can do so here
Be sure to tell your friends about it, too!
Vanished is almost certainly the only mystery/thriller novel set in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp. Along with a fast-moving plot, it plunges readers deep into the twisting alleys and complex family relations of the world that Ahmed himself had grown up in, in Jabalia... a world that the Israeli military has now bombed and bulldozed into a death-plagued hellscape.
You can read some of the many plaudits the book has already received, here, on our website. And we're running a little publicity campaign about it right now, on Just World Books' accounts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Be sure to Follow us on those platforms, if you can!
Three quick additional points here about Vanished.
** 1. Though our launch event is not till April 1, the book WILL be available from Bookstores and online retailers throughout North America, from this Tuesday (March 25), on.
This means you could buy the book and have already read all or most of it before you attend the webinar April 1! We warmly welcome all such well-prepared readers to join our conversation April 1.
** 2. Sadly, our version of the book will only immediately be available in North America-- and soon, too, we hope in India.
So if you know of publishers in other parts of the English-speaking world, or publishers in languages other than English, who would like to buy the right to release this super-engaging, timely work in their markets... be sure to let me know!
** 3. Ahmed himself will be joining our April 1 webinar from his home in London. But he will be traveling to North America twice this Fall.
Please be sure to let me know asap if a bookstore or community group you're working with would like to host him then”.
Register here