Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. It's the Brian Laird show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. With us now Judith

Sloan and Nausla Saeed who are holding three events in Manhattan and Brooklyn this month,

trying to talk about Israel and Gaza, Jewish identity, and Palestinian identity,

and engage in dialogue rather than dire triberibe in a different kind of way.

Judith is an actor, writer, educator, and radio producer,

and Nodula is an actor, writer, an activist.

Their project is called Imperfect Allies. is an actor, writer, an activist.

Their project is called Imperfect Allies,

Children of Opposite Sides.

It combines a 15 minute theater piece

with a dialogue that follows among the audience members who sign up because they want to engage with people not like them from diverse backgrounds,

imperfect allies, if you will, children from opposite sides as the title goes.

They have three such events coming up in the next week that will tell you about disclosure.

Judas Sloane happens to be my sister-in-law, married to my brother.

Nausla Saeed has a much more famous and important relative than me.

She's the daughter of Edward Saeed, the late Columbia University professor who wrote the seminal book on Western

Attitudes toward Eastern and Middle Eastern peoples called Orientalism.

Before they join us live, we'll hear two excerpts from performances by each of them first

here is a two minute excerpt in which Najla reads from her book, Looking for Palestine,

it's her autobiography, talking about herself and her father.

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