Upside-Down Love: Shiri Krebs in conversation with Award-Winning Author, Sari Bashi, on occupation, bureaucracy, and love that defies borders
When: Thursday, 12 March, at 17:30-18:30
Where: Online via zoom
Upside-Down Love is a memoir in two voices. Osama is a Palestinian professor, originally from Gaza, who cannot leave the West Bank city of Ramallah. Sari is an Israeli-American lawyer and long-distance runner who petitions Israel’s Supreme Court for his right to travel freely. When the case began, neither expected to fall in love—and when it was over, nobody expected their love
In this webinar, Professor Shiri Krebs, the Director of the Centre for Law as Protection, will be in conversation with author Sari Bashi about the law and bureaucracy of occupation, human rights and the freedom of movement in Occupied Palestine, and love that transcends borders, walls, and passports.
Bio of Sari Bashi:
Sari Bashi is an Israeli-American writer, blogger and human rights lawyer, married to a Palestinian professor who grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. She’s the author of the Umm Forat blog and the book Upside-Down Love (Maqluba), published in Hebrew and translated into Italian, Dutch and English, which describes how she and Osama met and fell in love. Sari is the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, a human rights organization protecting Palestinian detainees and others at risk of being subjected to torture and mistreatment. She is the co-founder and former executive director of Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, the Israeli human rights organization promoting freedom of movement for Palestinians in Gaza. She previously served as the program director for Human Rights Watch, leading the organization’s global research. She’s an expert in international humanitarian law, a subject she has taught at Tel Aviv University and Yale Law School. Sari’s essays appear in the New York Times, MSNBC, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books and other publications. She received her B.A. from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School and was a Fulbright scholar.
The English translation of her award-winning memoir and love story, Upside-Down Love, is now available at your local bookstore or for online purchase! Hebrew, Italian and Dutch versions are also on the shelves and online.
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