“An extraordinary story about the tenacity of love in the face of brutal injustice.”
Join us at local Char and Stave as Sashi Bashi discussed her memoir Upside Down Love with Palestinian American writer Ahmed Moor. This timely and provocative book, written in Hebrew and published in January in English translation, made the USA Today bestselling books list and describes how Sari, an Israeli-American Jewish human rights lawyer, and her partner, a Palestinian professor and refugee from a Muslim family, fell in love and managed to make it work, in the shadow of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. It has also been published in Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
The memoir challenges assumptions about Israelis and Palestinians being locked into a biblically-ordained ethnic or religious conflict and instead presents an option of co-resistance. Saris relationship with her spouse during the war in Gaza has been the subject of a New York Times Modern Love essay
Sari Bashi is an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and writer, the co-founder of the Israeli human rights group Gisha, a former program director at Human Rights Watch and the current executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel.
“In a time of great brokenness, along comes this song of possible repair. Sari Bashi’s memoir is a powerful and vital indication that the best things can occur, even in the face of all available evidence. Every once in a while we can change our perspective and begin to turn the world upside down.”