Please join us for the launch of Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh's new short-story collection, Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor's Tales of Life in Galilee.
Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, a Palestinian doctor, writer, and activist who has for 35 years worked in providing health care to Palestinians living in the Galilee. He is co-founder of the Galilee society, a medical health and research NGO, and author of the accalimed memoir, A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel
Moderated by Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor of English, Brooklyn College.
Chief Complaint has attracted warm endorsements from figures like writers Ghada Karmi and Susan Abulhawa, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook, and mind/body expert Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk.
“...a dazzling tapestry of Palestinian life in Galilee through a series of short stories.”
Cosponsors
Just World Books
Middle East Institute.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday February 24, 2015, 6:00-8:00P.M.
Knox Hall, Room 208
Columbia University