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|  | | Marty's Martini Bar
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| |  | | Broadway in Chicago at Cadillac Palace
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| |  | | Spyners Pub
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| |  | | Scandals
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| |  | | Pie Hole Pizza Joint
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| |  | | Chemically Imbalanced Comedy
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| |  | | Black Ensemble Theater
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| |  | | Jeffery Pub
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| |  | | The Courtyard Theater at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
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| |  | | Broadway in Bronzeville at Harold Washington Cultural Center
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| |  | | Granville Anvil
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Tuesday June 6th
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
7:00pm
In 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy, and human rights. The government's ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times. Yet despite all the reporting, the video, and the wrenching photography, the stories of ordinary Syrians remain unheard. Based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians conducted over four years across the Middle East and Europe, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled is a breathtaking mosaic of first-hand testimonials from the front lines. From several pages of short-story-like narratives to a few sentences of poetry, these testimonials chronicle those who face darkness with hope, courage, and moral conviction.
Wendy Pearlman has studied or conducted research in Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey,
Germany, Spain, Israel, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She has written two books and more than a dozen articles or book chapters about the Palestinian national movement, focusing on internal politics and the causes and consequences of political violence. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.
Event Website
Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299
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