Please join us at a Book tour event celebrating the launch of the acclaimed book “Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East” by veteran journalist and Galilee Foundation co-founder Dr Marwan Bishara, featuring conversations with friends and award-winning journalists.

See event dates below:

Upcoming Dates:

Friday 30^th October: Ibraaz featuring a conversation with Richard Sanders
Time: 6 – 8 PM
Address: Ibraaz, 93 Mortimer St, London W1W 7SS
Booking required for this free event: https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/twelve-days-that-shook-the-middle-east

Past Events:

Tuesday 13^th October: The Frontline Club featuring a conversation with Stephen Sackur
Time: 7 – 8:30 PM (SOLD OUT)

Wednesday 14th October: Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool featuring a conversation with Dr Sahar Halabi
Time: 7 – 9 PM
Address: Sefton Suite, Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, Liverpool, L3 5UL (FULLY BOOKED)

Thursday 22^nd October: Oxford University featuring a conversation with Dr Eugene Rogan Time: 5 – 8 PM
Address: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford, OX2 6JF
See more details. Booking is not required for this free event.

Monday 26^th October: SOAS featuring a conversation with Dr Dina Matar
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Address: 10 Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG (Senate House, Room: SWLT)

Booking required for this free event: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east

A brilliant book by an outstanding veteran journalist who has followed and reported on Israeli politics for decades. Marwan Bishara shows that the path to genocide was not built accidentally but was paved by decades of intentional dehumanization and supremist indoctrination. More than any other book, it expertly probes the political arrogance, structural racism and cultivated cruelty that set the stage for October 7.”
―Raja Shehadeh, author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

Hard-hitting, compelling, honest. A tragic portrait of the violence that has overtaken the Middle East since 7 October 2023, from genocide in Gaza to wars in Lebanon and Iran, as Israel and the United States combine forces to reshape the region. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the world today.”
―Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans

Marwan Bishara has written an essential work of contemporary history. He powerfully and meticulously illuminates how decisions made over twelve days in October 2023 set the stage for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as well as the wars against Iran and Lebanon that followed. Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East exposes not only a ‘fortress of complicity’ between Israel and its allies in the West, above all the United States, but a catastrophic moral failure, rooted in the logic of colonial violence and imperial patronage, that has led to unimaginable destruction and horror. Yet Bishara, one of the region’s most astute commentators, is driven less by anger than by the dream of ‘a day when Palestinians and Jews are united by the hope of a shared future, not divided by the hate of fanatic leaders.’ The result is an indispensable contribution to understanding the genocide, to the remembrance of its victims, and to ensuring that it never happens again―to anyone.”
―Adam Shatz, US Editor, London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon