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Author Talk with Sari Bashi and Ahmed Moor
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Author Talk with Sari Bashi and Ahmed Moor

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Book cover: Upside-Down Love A Memoir in Two Voices by Sari Bashi

Upside-Down Love A Memoir in Two Voices

With a message of hope that is both timely and timeless, Upside-Down Love is an extraordinary memoir--irreverent, funny, and profoundly uplifting--of an Israeli lawyer, a Palestinian professor, and a love that transcends all division.

Osama is a Palestinian professor, originally from Gaza, who cannot leave the West Bank city of Ramallah. Sari is an Israeli-American lawyer and long-distance runner who petitions Israel's Supreme Court for his right to travel freely. When the case began, neither expected to fall in love--and when it was over, nobody expected their love to endure.

First published in Hebrew in 2021, Osama and Sari's star-crossed romance--an intimate, vulnerable portrait of an astoundingly resilient Israeli-Palestinian relationship--has since become a beacon of hope in the aftermath of October 7, 2023. Now on its way to becoming an international cult sensation, Upside-Down Love speaks to the unique circumstances of this specific moment in history, while also illustrating a timeless truth: Love will triumph over bigotry and destruction.

This book will be available for purchase at the event.

About This Event

Mavey Books, The Main Line Jewish Justice Collective, and CAIR-Philadelphia are pleased to welcome Sari Bashi for the discussion of her book, Upside Down Love, in conversation with Ahmed Moor (After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine) on November 15, 2026.

Tickets for this event are free. Books are available for order at Mavey Books, with the option to pickup during the event. A signing will follow the author talk. This event is co-sponsored by Mavey Books, the Main Line Jewish Justice Collective, CAIR-Philadelphia, Friends of Standing Together-Philadelphia, IfNotNow, Lower Merion Alliance for Free Speech on Palestine, Philly Chapter of American Friends of Combatants for Peace, and the Bryn Mawr and Haverford ATIDNA.

Featured Authors

Sari Bashi

Sari Bashi is an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, the former program director of Human Rights Watch, and the cofounder of the Israeli human rights organization Gisha. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and has previously clerked on the Israeli Supreme Court. She has taught international humanitarian law at Yale Law School and Tel Aviv University. She has also been a Jerusalem correspondent for The Associated Press and has appeared on, and been interviewed by, major English-language outlets. She and Osama (a pseudonym) are married and living in the West Bank.

Anthony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is a journalist who has written for The Guardian, New York Times and New York Review of Books. He is the author of the bestselling The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, winner of the 2023 Walkley Non-Fiction Journalism Prize. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American writer and activist, and an elected Committee Person in the Democratic Party. He has written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books and Guardian.

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