Book Party

Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism and Kathy Engel, co-editor Poems of Palestine and Lebanon

Saturday, November 3
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

National Lawyers Guild Convention
Holiday Inn on the Hill
415 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
202.638.1616

Overcoming Zionism examines the foundations of the Zionist movement, the Zionist settlement of Palestine, the founding of Israel as a Jewish state, the expulsion of the Palestinian population, the conquest and occupation of the West Bank and Gaza territories by Israel, the Palestinian resistance, the degradation of the environment in Israel and the occupied territories, and the past and current efforts to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Following a great tradition of poetry throughout history, this book shows the vast conscience and lyrical spirit of resistance on the part of poets in support of the dignity, rights, and humanity of the Palestinian and Lebanese people.