Join us for a discussion about the sea change in US public opinion concerning Palestine, as witnessed by author
Pamela Olson and filmmaker
Nitin Sawhney. Pamela will also read from her memoir and share photos from her travels to
Palestine, and Nitin will play clips from his film
Flying Paper, about the culture of kite-making in Gaza.
Sponsored by: Graduate Program in International
Affairs, School of Media Studies and Project Palestine.
Fast Times in Palestine is a coming-of-age memoir about a young Stanford graduate from Oklahoma who stumbled into Palestine on a post-college backpacking trip. In the years that followed she learned the ropes, became a journalist, and served as the foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate.
The book doesn’t pontificate about the realities of life under the occupation but rather displays them in a gripping narrative full of beauty, suspense, cruelty, star-crossed love and dark humor that has the potential to reach and move broad audiences. It was named a Top Ten Travel Book of 2013 by Publisher’s Weekly.
