It's the Brian Laird

show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. With us now

Judith Sloane and Najla 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 Diatribe in a different

kind of way.

Judith is an actor, writer, education. a tribe in a different kind of way.

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

and Nagela is an actor, writer, an activist.

Their project is called Imperfect Allies, Children of Opposite Sides.

It combines a 15 minute theatre 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.

Nauslus Said has a much more famous and important. and 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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