Smadar Lavie to speak on Mizrahi Jewish Feminism & the Question of Palestine

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Smadar Lavie, a Mizrahi Jew, born and raised in Israel.  She is the author of the academic bestseller, The Poetics of Military Occupation (1990, University of California Press) and several other books and articles. She is the co-founder of the Feminist of Color Movement in Israel, the Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology, and other feminist and anti-racist NGOs. For the last two years she held the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Islam and the Middle East at Macalester College in St. Paul.  She is completing a book on the relationship between the Mizrahim, Palestine, and the racial formations of Israel.

Join us at the Bedlam Theatre, 1501 S. 6th Street, Minneapolis, for an exciting discussion about a facet of Israeli society that is not well known in this country and how it relates to Palestinian/Israeli issues.

For more information call 651-485-5269 or visit the Bedlam Theatre website: www.bedlamtheatre.org.