Book Talk with Pauline Mouhanna
$0.00 USD
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The Alliance Française of Dallas is delighted to welcome francophone author Pauline Mouhanna Karroum,
for an online presentation and talk on her book "Elle habitait à Sandwich".
Join us online on for a live discussion:
Thursday, September 9 at 6.30 pm
We look forward to see you there!
Click HERE to purchase a copy of her book.
About the Book
Therese, Franco-Lebanese, lives in Sandwich, Illinois. She decides one night to slam the door without returning back. Now that she is 37 years old, she questions her choices: leaving her home country and following her husband to the United States. Her exile, her husband’s career and the establishing of her own family kept her busy for ten years. Today, her nostalgia pushes the woman to question all those choices, for better or for worse.
Excerpt
« No, those who left aren’t those who, de facto succeeded in life. Why didn’t tell you me, my beautiful society: that your emigrants are suffering in their own upheaval and living sometimes in dire situations? Why didn’t you tell me that they are tasting every day the flavor of the separation? Why didn’t you tell me that they are not absolutely lucky? And even if that they are far from the dangers, and even if they believe that they saved their lives by fleeing from the danger and feel lucky, deep inside of them, they are hiding so much pains. »
About the Author
Pauline Mouhanna Karroum is a bilingual journalist and writes frequently in French and English for Jeune Afrique, a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine published in Paris; for l’Orient le Jour, a leading French-language daily newspaper in Lebanon and in Inside Arabia, an online news magazine providing news and analysis of the Middle East and North Africa. Her first novel “She Lived in Sandwich” was published in 2020 by les éditions Panthéon, Paris.
She has given French lessons in an American university and in Alliance Française in Atlanta and in Nashville. She also offers private lessons in French with l’Alliance Française in Washington DC.
Born and raised in Lebanon, Pauline holds a Master’s in Political Science from Saint Joseph University in Beirut, and a Master’s in Information Communication from Paris 2-Assas.
She lived and worked in Paris, France, in 2007, after being granted the Keizo Obuchi award from UNESCO.
In 2011, she moved to the United States and after Illinois, Georgia and Tennessee, she lives now with her husband and her two children in Washington DC.
BOOKS: can be either mailed or picked up at the Alliance Française de Dallas.
Please note pick-ups require to book an appointment as the Alliance premises remain closed to the public.
A Zoom link will be sent to the group at least 2 hours prior to the discussion.
*** FREE ADMISSION TO THE EVENT - Open to All ***