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<\/p>\n“THE JEWEL GARDEN”<\/p>\n
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Images of Life: The Jewel Garden<\/p>\n <\/span><\/em><\/span>MEET Susanne Ayoub<\/span> Like so many others, Christmas Eve in 1955 begins for Laura with discord in the family home. But then an unexpected visitor appears: Younis, a young man from Baghdad. And all at once everything changes. Before the year is out, Laura and Younis are a couple. Laura leaves Vienna, her parents, and her friends, and follows Younis to Baghdad.<\/p>\n But what did she really know about him, about his homeland, about the political turmoil that would soon overshadow Iraq? Can their love survive times like these? Susanne Ayoub\u2019s novel was inspired by her parents\u2019 moving life story and love story. Her protagonists move in the area of tension between two different cultures and religions.<\/p>\n Susanne Ayoub herself was born in Baghdad. At age 6, she fled with her mother to Vienna and went to a Catholic boarding school. Under tremendous pressure from her father, she later converted to Islam. Today she lives in Vienna. She works as an author and director for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, writes novels, and makes documentary films. In 2014 she received the Dr. Karl Renner Prize for Journalism.<\/p>\n Moderator: Dr. Elisabeth ANKER, Director of the Haus der Begegnung (House of Encounter) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE NEXT READING IS FROM “THE JEWEL GARDEN” TUESDAY MaY 31, 2016, 7 PM HAUS DER BEGEGNUNG Rennweg 12 6020 Innsbruck Images of Life: The Jewel Garden MEET Susanne Ayoub DISCUSSION AND BOOK PRESENTATION Like so many others, Christmas Eve in 1955 begins for Laura with discord in the family home. But then an unexpected … Continue reading “LESUNG INNSBRUCK AM 31. MAI”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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