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Start: 6:00 pm
Hannibal Travis’ Genocide in the Middle East (Carolina Academic Press, $70) describes the genocide of the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of the Kurds and other persons living under Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq in the late 1980s; and of the Dinka, Nuba, Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa peoples of Sudan from the 1970s to the present. The field of genocide studies has grown rapidly in recent years, fueled by interest in the Armenian genocide, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the widespread massacres in southern Sudan and Darfur. While several comparative studies of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and other genocides have been published, none of them focuses on genocide in the Middle East and North Africa since the nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive history of genocide in the broader Islamic world, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It is of interest to general readers, undergraduates, graduate students, academics, journalists, and legal professionals, and will be useful as a text for courses on International Law, International Criminal Law, Law and Religion, Middle East Studies, International Relations, Public Policy, Criminal Justice, or World History. Presented in collaboration with School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. 6pm
Start: 8:00 pm
One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami,
twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called
Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of
Biscayne Bay.
It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open
water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the
dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her,
she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuVal—and a new future reveals
itself.
Turning away from her quiet, predictable life back home, Frances
moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time, she earns the confidence of
his wild-at-heart sister and wins the approval of his oldest friend.
Frances and Dennis marry and have a child—but rather than growing
complacent about their good fortune, they continue to face the
challenges of intimacy and the complicated city they call home.
Stiltsville is the family's island oasis—until suddenly it's gone,
and Frances is forced to figure out how to make her family work on dry
land. Against a backdrop of lush tropical beauty, Frances and Dennis
struggle with the mutability of love and Florida's weather, as well as
temptation, chaos, and disappointment. But just when Frances thinks
she's reached some semblance of higher ground, she must confront an
obstacle so great that even the lessons she's learned about navigating
the uncharted waters of family life can't keep them afloat.
With Stiltsville (Harper, $24.99), Susanna Daniel weaves the beauty, violence,
and humanity of Miami's coming-of-age with an enduring story of a
marriage's beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise
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