{"id":49548,"date":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=49548"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:00:43","slug":"journalist-seeks-to-enlighten-bay-area-about-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/journalist-seeks-to-enlighten-bay-area-about-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Seeks To Enlighten Bay Area About Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed\u00a0 international\u00a0 journalist and publisher Helena Cobban is visiting the Bay Area with public events from October 10-15. Cobban is the founder of the highly-regarded publishing house Just World Books with many books on Palestine, Gaza and the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most recently she and Palestinian journalist Rami Khouri conducted interviews with five leading experts on Hamas. These are combined in a compelling book which sheds tremendous light on what Hamas is and is not. The title is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Understanding-Hamas-Why-That-Matters\/dp\/1682196348\/\"><em>Understanding Hamas and Why It Matters<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The book has received glowing reviews from diverse experts.\u00a0 Prof Avi Shlaim of Oxford University said,<\/p>\n<p><em>Here a group of real experts offer a nuanced, historically-based and strikingly fair-minded account of the ideology and practice of Hamas\u2026\u00a0<\/em><em><strong>Their book should be required reading for all Western policy-makers.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cobban and other experts on Palestine are speaking at the following free public events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, Oct 10 &#8211; 7 pm &#8211;\u00a0 Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, Oct 12 &#8211; 12 noon &#8211; Westhope Presbyterian Church, 12850 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, Oct 12 &#8211; 4 pm &#8211; Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, Oct 13 &#8211; 2 pm &#8211; Eric Quezada Center, 518 Valencia Str, San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Monday, Oct 14 &#8211; 5 pm &#8211; Beers Bookstore, 712 R Street, Sacramento<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information contact 925.324.3358 or <a href=\"mailto:rsterling1@gmail.com\">rsterling1@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cobban-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cobban-book-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cobban-book.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed\u00a0 international\u00a0 journalist and publisher Helena Cobban is visiting the Bay Area with public events from October 10-15. Cobban is the founder of the highly-regarded publishing house Just World Books with many books on Palestine, Gaza and the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-49548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49571,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49548\/revisions\/49571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}