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DESCRIPTION:Modern Times is thrilled to welcome Jordan Flaherty to launch Floodlines: 
 Community and Resistance from New Orleans to the Jena Six, in conversation 
 with Dave Eggers (Zeitoun), as part of San Francisco's One City One Book 
 program! Join Eggers and Flaherty for an unforgettable conversation about 
 the politics and culture of New Orleans pre and post Katrina.\n\nAbout 
 Floodlines:\n\nFloodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and 
 resistance in New Orleans in the years before and after Katrina. The book 
 weaves the interconnected stories of Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino 
 immigrants, public housing residents, gay rappers, spoken word poets, 
 victims of police brutality, out of town volunteers, and grassroots 
 activists. From post-Katrina evacuee camps, to torture testimony at Angola 
 Prison, to organizing with the family members of the Jena Six, Floodlines 
 tells the stories behind the headlines, from an unforgettable time and 
 place in history.\n\nAbout Zeitoun:\n\nWhen Hurricane Katrina struck New 
 Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of 
 four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting 
 business. In the days after, he traveled the flooded streets in a 
 secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. But, on 
 September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers’s riveting 
 nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun’s roots in 
 Syria, his marriage to Kathy—an American who converted to Islam—and 
 their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United 
 States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun became 
 possible. Like What Is the What, Zeitoun was written in close collaboration 
 with its subjects and involved vast research—in this case, in the U.S., 
 Spain, and Syria.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/22/18659450.php
SUMMARY:SF: Floodlines and Zeitoun in Conversation
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore\nLocation: \n888 Valencia Street\nSan Francisco, 
 CA\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/22/18659450.php
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