Suad Amiry presents an illustrated reading of excerpts from her books, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law and Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Trip with Murad, as well as showing images.

Suad Amiry is a Palestinian writer and architect. Born in Damascus to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, she now lives between Ramallah and New York City. She is a founder of Riwaq: Center for Architectural Conservation in Ramallah. She is also the author of acclaimed memoirs, inlcuding Sharon and My Mother-in-Law (2005), Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge (2011), Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Trip with Murad (2011), and Golda Slept Here (2014) and My “Damascus” (2016). Amiry is the recipient of Italy’s renowned literary awards: Viareggio-Versilia (2004) and Nonino Risit D’Aur (2014). She and her organization, Riwaq, also won the presitigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013.

çu le prestigieux prix Aga Khan pour l’architecture en 2013.