October 17, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Oct 17 2010

Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza, his graphic novel about the little known shooting in 1956 of hundreds of Palestinian refugees by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza towns of Rafah and Khan Yunis; plus Moustafa Bayoumi, editor of a new anthology, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, joined by contributors Rashid Khalidi and Phil Weiss.

Episode segments
  • Footnotes in Gaza: Part I
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza. Sacco is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage through comics and is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area Gorazde, which won the Eisner Award. His comics reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Harper's.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Footnotes in Gaza explores the bloody killings that took place in the town of Rafa and the Khan Younis Refugee camp during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, and unearths the layers of violence that the residents of Gaza have endured from 1948 to the present.

  • Footnotes in Gaza: Part 2
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza. Sacco is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage through comics and is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area Gorazde, which won the Eisner Award. His comics reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Harper's.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Footnotes in Gaza explores the bloody killings that took place in the town of Rafa and the Khan Younis Refugee camp during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, and unearths the layers of violence that the residents of Gaza have endured from 1948 to the present.

  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation

    Moustafa Bayoumi is editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict (Haymarket Books and O/R Books). His previous books include How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?, which won an American Book Award. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and The London Review of Books. He teaches at Brooklyn College.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A discussion of the decisive events of May 2010, when Israeli military forces bordered a flotilla of boats on a humanitarian mission to deliver needed supplies to the people of Gaza.

  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: Book Reading and Discussion
    International Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Rashid Khalidi is a contributor to Midnight on the Mavi Marmara. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of, among other books, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006), and most recently, Sowing Crisis: American Hegemony and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009).
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    An excerpt from Rashid Khalidi's remarks at a September 28th reading and discussion by contributors to Midnight on the Mavi Marmara at Alwan Center for the Arts.

    The event was sponsored by OR Books and Haymarket Books and was a launch of the Haymarket Books edition.

  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: Book Reading and Discussion
    Israel/Palestine, Palestinian Politics, Occupation
    Philip Weiss is a contributor to Midnight on the Mavi Marmara and founder of the website Mondoweiss, which comments on the Israel/Palestine crisis. His books include Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, a political novel, and American Taboo, an investigation of a murder in the Kingdom of Tonga. His writings have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    An excerpt from Phil Weiss's remarks at a September 28th reading and discussion by contributors to Midnight on the Mavi Marmara at Alwan Center for the Arts.

    The event was sponsored by OR Books and Haymarket Books and was a launch of the Haymarket Books edition.