{"id":15592,"date":"2026-04-24T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/diwan-bookstore-hosts-anniversary-event-for-plestia-al-aqads-the-eyes-of-gaza\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:10:08","slug":"diwan-bookstore-hosts-anniversary-event-for-plestia-al-aqads-the-eyes-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/diwan-bookstore-hosts-anniversary-event-for-plestia-al-aqads-the-eyes-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwan Bookstore Hosts Anniversary Event for Plestia Al-Aqad\u2019s \u201cThe Eyes of Gaza\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-post\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One year after the release of the book, The Eyes of Gaza (2025), Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Al-Aqad will <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXHQVWWDG_m\/?igsh=MWZzamJ3NG5lam42OQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">return<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the spotlight in Cairo for a special evening of conversation and reflection at Diwan Bookstore in Heliopolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event, scheduled for Saturday, April 18, at 6 PM, will feature Al-Aqad in conversation with writer Laila Shadid. The discussion aims to explore the human stories behind the headlines from Gaza and the broader urgency of imagining a different future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diwan Bookstore <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXHQVWWDG_m\/?igsh=MWZzamJ3NG5lam42OQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">described<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the gathering as \u201ca powerful evening marking the anniversary of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/2026\/04\/14\/diwan-bookstore-hosts-anniversary-event-for-plestia-al-aqads-the-eyes-of-gaza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 One year after the release of the book, The Eyes of Gaza (2025),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-1192"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}