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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine,
by Joel Kovel

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We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon,
Edited by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel

Monday, May 14, 2007, 5:30PM
Mamlouk
211 East 4th Street

Joel Kovel, Kathy Engel and others will read from their works.

Both books will be available for purchase

Refreshments will be provided by MAMLOUK

In Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in
Israel/Palestine, Kovel confronts the unfortunate confusion between Jews,
Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel as the basis for systematic
manipulation by the imperialist power system. He argues that the inner
contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a "state-sponsored racism"
fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving the
same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can
provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East.

Joel Kovel is a well-known writer on the Middle East conflict. He has
written ten books which include The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism
or the End of the World, White Racism a Psychohistory; Red Hunting in the
Promised Land: Anti-communism and the Making of America. He is a professor
of social science at Bard College and edits Capitalism, Nature and
Socialism. He was a candidate for the Green nomination for US President in
2000.

We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, contains poems written in
response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with poems offered
in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese people following the 2006 Israeli
war on Lebanon, and others written about the U.S. war and occupation of
Iraq. 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.

Kathy Engel is a poet, creative and communications consultant for peace,
social justice and human rights groups, and currently an adjunct professor
at NYU. Her emphasis is connecting the imagination and art to work for
social justice and peace. Her books include Banish The Tentative, 1989 and
Ruth's Skirts, 2007. She is co editor of We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine
and Lebanon, 2007. She has founded and co founded organizations including
MADRE, Riptide Communications, East End Women in Black, Hayground School.
She serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation.

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