{"id":15560,"date":"2025-02-22T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=15560"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:56:21","slug":"one-book-many-communities-they-called-me-a-lioness-a-palestinian-girls-fight-for-freedom-9-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/02\/22\/one-book-many-communities-they-called-me-a-lioness-a-palestinian-girls-fight-for-freedom-9-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"One Book, Many Communities &#8212; <i>They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl&#8217;s Fight for Freedom<\/i> (9 March 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/They_Called_Me_a_Lioness\/fRyOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15562 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OneBookManyCommunities9Mar2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1395\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OneBookManyCommunities9Mar2025.png 1395w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OneBookManyCommunities9Mar2025-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OneBookManyCommunities9Mar2025-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OneBookManyCommunities9Mar2025-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OneBookManyCommunities9Mar2025-1200x672.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Sunday (9 March 2025) at 3:00 PM for the\u00a0One Book, Many Communities in the Social Hall at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church.<\/p>\n<p>This is a a Common Read event sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/librarianswithpalestine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Librarians and Archivists with Palestine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/uujme-shreveport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (Shreveport Chapter)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book for the 2025 One Book, Many Communities event is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/They_Called_Me_a_Lioness\/fRyOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl&#8217;s Fight for Freedom<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahed_Tamimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahed Tamini<\/a> and Dena Takruri.<\/p>\n<p>Ahed Tamimi became known worldwide when a video clip of her slapping an Israeli soldier went viral &#8212; but her struggle against apartheid and occupation began long before that day &#8212; and the historical struggle had gone on longer still.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkus Reviews has called Tamini&#8217;s book, &#8220;A passionately argued, profoundly empathetic, and deeply informed examination of her country\u2019s occupation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the book will be available at All Souls. The cost is $12.00 or whatever you can pay if you can pay.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t let money be an obstacle to your reading the book and participating in the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Sunday (9 March 2025) at 3:00 PM for the\u00a0One Book, Many Communities in the Social Hall at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church. This is a a Common Read event sponsored by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine and Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (Shreveport Chapter). The book for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/02\/22\/one-book-many-communities-they-called-me-a-lioness-a-palestinian-girls-fight-for-freedom-9-march-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Book, Many Communities &#8212; <i>They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl&#8217;s Fight for Freedom<\/i> (9 March 2025)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-events","category-religious-education","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15565,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions\/15565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}