Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss Crossing the Red Line & Seasons of Fury

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*See Event Guidelines Below* Join us for a conversation with award-winning writers Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali, discussing their latest books Crossing the Red Line and Seasons of Fury . "This clearheaded and well-documented account constitutes a devastating condemnation of the fecklessness and incompetence of the Biden administration’s response to the Hamas massacre of October 7, and its wholesale complicity in the genocidal assault by Israel on Gaza.…A must-read for anyone who still cares about the use of American power for good rather than evil and a clarion call to liberate U.S. policymakers from the hold of Israeli extremists and their American lobbyists." —Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University, and author of Israel: What Went Wrong? “Seasons of Fury is a magisterial, infuriating, and absolutely necessary book. With a sense of care and thoroughness developed over years of journalistic expertise in the subject matter, Rozina Ali interrogates one of the most acceptable and least-punished forms of prejudice in America today. Her writing charts the toll this systemic, pervasive bigotry takes on generations of families, how easily it upends entire lives. A vital work, as illuminating as any I’ve read in many years on how and why hatred becomes normalized.” —Omar El Akkad, National Book Award–winning author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Akbar Shahid Ahmed is the diplomatic correspondent at The Washington Sun. For his Gaza coverage, he has received a Writers Guild Award and a New York Press Club Award and has twice been named a finalist for the Livingston Award. Based in Washington, D.C., Ahmed previously covered foreign policy at HuffPost for twelve years. He is a Yale graduate who grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Rozina Ali is a journalist and contributing writer at New York Times Magazine, a fellow at Type Media Center, a fellow at New America, and was previously a senior editor at The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Ali writes primarily about the War on Terror, Islamophobia, the Middle East, and South Asia, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The American Prospect, and more. Ali is a recipient of the National Magazine Award in Reporting. Event guidelines: Each ticket includes either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. A signing will follow the talk. The conversation will be livestreamed for free online here . As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out. If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact .

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