TPAN

A book club centred on exploring Palestinian literary voices.

How often: Monthly on the 3rd Friday & Saturday of the month.

Paper, e-book or audiobook are all acceptable forms of reading.

Register by emailing: north.tpan@protonmail.com

When & where:

Two options are available.

• Friday 18 September - 11am-1pm – Launceston Library, Level 2, Room 3
• Saturday 19 September – 1-3pm Neighbourhood Café, Trevallyn

Cost: Free, but books sourced at own cost.

This month's book selection: Discipline by Randa Abdel Fattah

Where to get it: 

Discipline is available at Petrarch’s Bookshop, Launceston or online.

There is a copy available through Libraries Tasmania.

It is also available as an e-book.

About ‘Discipline’ by Randa Abdel Fattah

Silence is complicity, but how do we confront the cost of speaking up?

Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall. Hannah is a young journalist struggling to honour the voices of her community. As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza intensifies into the final weeks of Ramadan, Ashraf and Hannah must reckon with their choices, values and places in their communities. Will they be prepared to make sacrifices in the pursuit of what is right?

With a focus on two of today’s most contested fields academia and the media, Discipline tallies the price we all pay when those with privilege choose to remain silent.

Reviews:

‘As Ramadan unfolds under the shadow of the Gaza genocide, Discipline asks what is the cost of speaking truth to power, and worse, what is the cost of remaining silent. In this blistering, urgent novel, Randa Abdel-Fattah captures the impossible choices faced by those who dare to raise their voices in a world that demands silence. Unflinching in its moral clarity, this book is necessary reading.’ Susan Abulhawa, author of Mornings in Jenin.

‘Discipline deftly tackles the costs of truth-telling: on painstakingly built careers, on concerns about the future, on communities and relationships, and on our own personal values (and the ability to live with ourselves). But it is also a novel that holds us all to account: what we will accept, what we will stand for, and ultimately, what we deserve. Are we able to look in the mirror, and see things for what they are? And what will it take for us to do something about it?’ The Age.

For more information on Discipline go to https://www.uqp.com.au/books/discipline

About Randa Abdel Fattah

Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, australia. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also one of australia’s most prominent Palestine advocates, a former litigation lawyer, and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books published in over 20 countries and translated into over 15 languages. She is a lawyer of the NSW Supreme Court and patron of the Racial Justice Centre, the first Australian Community Legal Service focussed on racial justice.