Leila Haddad, 'Gaza Mom' speaking in SF

Please join us to welcome Leila Haddad, 'Gaza Mom', as part of her West Coast book tour. In addition to speaking about her book: 'Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between', Leila will also be speaking about and leading a discussion on the Egyptian revolution, and its effects on Gaza in particular and Palestine in general.

Laila's book, 'Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between' El-Haddad takes us into the life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it—very intensely. This book is El-Haddad’s self-curated choice of the best of her writings from December 2004 through July 2010.

Leila Haddad is a talented blogger, political analyst, social activist, and parent-of-two from Gaza. She earned a B.A. from Duke University and MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She and her two young children spend as much time in Gaza as they can– her spouse, a Palestinian physician who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon, is not allowed by Israel to enter Gaza. He’s an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, so El-Haddad and their children spend much of their time with him in Maryland.

$5-10 donation requested to assist with travel funds, no one turned away for lack of funds