BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:VEVENT UID:56@jmedia.online DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200825T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200825T110000 DTSTAMP:20200819T095536Z URL:https://jmedia.online/events/esther-amini-in-conversation-sydney-jewis h-writers-festival/ SUMMARY:Esther Amini in conversation - Sydney Jewish Writers Festival DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nEsther Amini in conversation\n\n\n\n\nInterview with au thor of Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America\nBorn to Persian Jews who fled Iran\, Esther Amini gre w up in freewheeling 1960s New York. Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Irania n Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America\, uncovers her parents’ early years as crypto-Jews in Iran’s holiest Muslim city\, and their ar duous journey to America\, where they faced the threat of freedom.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n“My father’s terror of the outside world and my mother’s hung er for it spilled into our raucous home.” Esther Amini\, Concealed\n\n  \;\n\nEsther Amini\nEsther Amini is a New York-based writer\, painte r\, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her short stories have appeared in  Elle\, Lilith\, Tablet\, The Jewish Week\, and Proximity. She was award ed the Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship in 2016\, and was chosen by the Jewish Women’s Theatre as their Artist-in-Residence in 2019. Esther ’s pieces have been performed in theatres in Los Angeles and in Manhatta n.\n \;\n\nInterviewer: Karmel Melamed\n\nKarmel Melamed is an award-w inning internationally published journalist\, activist\, speaker and attor ney based in Los Angeles. Fluent in Farsi\, Melamed is an expert on the Ir anian-American community\, the current Iranian regime’s human rights vio lations against Jews and other minorities\, and Middle East politics. His writing frequently appears in The Times of Israel and The Forward. Karm el is based in Southern California.\n\n CATEGORIES:SJWF LOCATION:https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=638680 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20200405T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR