On Monday, Sep. 29, Sara Aziza, Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza, will read and discuss her memoir, The Hollow Half. The conversation will be moderated by Assistant Professor of History Elise Mitchell and take place in the Intercultural Center Dome Room from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Hollow Half, a finalist for the Palestine Book Awards, is a genre-bending work of memoir and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, the body, and the American dream.

The event is part of WAR | POWER | CULTURE, a Cooper-sponsored series that brings together acclaimed novelists, scholars, and journalists from around the world to discuss how war is represented historically and culturally, how the humanities address concepts of human rights in curbing the spread of war, and how lives bear the traces of history’s conflicts.