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SUMMARY:Majeda Awawdeh - The Sky is Concave
LOCATION:Upstairs at Gleebooks
DESCRIPTION:6pm for 6.30pm Thursday 22nd October\n\nMajeda Awawdeh in conve
 rsation with Amani Haydar\n\nBorn near Nazareth as a Palestinian citizen o
 f Israel\, Majeda Awawdeh learns early the limits imposed on her body\, he
 r voice and her dreams.\n\nAfter marrying at just seventeen to escape an i
 ncreasingly stifling home life and continue her education\, Majeda finds h
 erself shouldering the double burden of occupation and patriarchy in anoth
 er kind of prison. Armed only with singular determination\, love for her t
 hree young children and passion for learning\, she begins to redraw the bo
 undaries of her reality.\n\nIn The Sky Is Concave\, Majeda recounts her jo
 urney through a childhood shaped by civil discrimination and rising religi
 ous conservatism to hard-won intellectual\, financial and personal freedom
  as a scholar and award-winning educational entrepreneur in Australia.\n\n
 Written with fierce\, poetic honesty\, The Sky Is Concave is a testament t
 o courage and reinvention. It is an unforgettable story of daring to quest
 ion the limits of your world and reshaping your own sky.\n\n\n\nDr Majeda 
 Awawdeh is an academic\, entrepreneur and advocate for women’s education
  based in Sydney\, Australia. Born in the 1948 region\, one of two million
  Palestinians with Israeli citizenship living under occupation\, her early
  life was shaped by patriarchy\, civil discrimination\, the rise of Islami
 c conservatism and the complex realities of being a Palestinian citizen of
  Israel. Majeda holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics\, a master’s 
 in Mathematics Education\, and a PhD in Mathematics Education and Cognitiv
 e Load Theory. She is also a winner of a Telstra Business Women’s Award.
 \n\nAmani Haydar is an award-winning writer\, visual artist\, lawyer and a
 dvocate for women’s health and safety based in Western Sydney. Amani’s
  debut memoir The Mother Wound has been the recipient of multiple accolade
 s\, including the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fictio
 n. Amani is also the recipient of the 2021 UTS Faculty of Law Alumni Award
 \, and was named Local Woman of the Year for Bankstown at the 2020 NSW Pre
 mier’s Woman of the Year Awards in recognition of her advocacy against d
 omestic violence. As a distinguished visual artist\, Amani is also a forme
 r Archibald Prize finalist.\n\nBoletos: https://www.trybooking.com/events/
 landing/1647863
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