{"id":40802198287,"date":"2014-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/poetry-reading-by-saliba-sarsar-at-monmouth-university-on-october-6\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:00:00","slug":"poetry-reading-by-saliba-sarsar-at-monmouth-university-on-october-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/poetry-reading-by-saliba-sarsar-at-monmouth-university-on-october-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Reading by Saliba Sarsar at Monmouth University on October 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Political Science Professor and author Saliba Sarsar will give  <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>  a  <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>  poetry reading on October 6, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Monmouth University Library, Seminar Room 102. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required by October 3. Contact Monmouth University&#8217;s Honors School at 732-263-5308.<\/p>\n<p>Sarsar, born and raised in Jerusalem, is the author and editor of several works on the Middle East, as well as two books of poetry. The first, &#8220;Crosswinds,&#8221; includes impressions of a teenager experiencing Jerusalem under Jordanian and Israeli rule, and maturing in a land &#8220;between war and peace.&#8221; \u00a0The second, &#8220;Seven Gates of Jerusalem,&#8221; is a personal journey into the depth of dialogue, inclusion and peace.<\/p>\n<p>The poems address overcoming adversity and the need for deliverance.\u00a0Sarsar&#8217;s individual poems have appeared in a variety of venues, including The New York Times, Asbury Park Press, Mediterranean Poetry, Warscapes, and Monmouth Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarsar, born and raised in Jerusalem, is the author and editor of several works on the Middle East, as well as two books of poetry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[14,17,11,8],"school":[116,59,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802198287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-initiatives","mediacontact-petra-ludwig","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-honors-school","school-political-science-sociology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802198287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802198287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802198287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802222894,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802198287\/revisions\/40802222894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802198287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802198287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802198287"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802198287"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802198287"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802198287"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802198287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}