NIF New Generation's Friday Night Dinner with Sayed Kashua!

Join us for a special 20's-30's Friday night dinner and discussion with renowned author Sayid Kashua, who's weekly columns in Haaretz have become a cornerstone in the Israeli Shabbat experience. His satiric column has sparked many social debates in Israel as well as entertained readers with his wit and dead pan sense of humor. this event is sponsored by the New Israel Fund's New Generations.

Sayed Kashua was born in Tira in the Triangle region of Israel. In 1990, he was accepted to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem. He studied sociology and philosophy at Hebrew University. Kashua lives with his wife and daughter in Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. Kashua writes satiric columns in Hebrew for Haaretz newspaper and a local Jerusalem weekly, Ha-Ir. In a humorous, tongue-in-cheek style, Kashua addresses the problems faced by Arabs in Israel, caught between two worlds. He is the author of two novels and screenwriter of the satiric sitcom Arab Labor.