Jazzmyn Inisis will read from her book, Shah Razad and the Djins Who Loved Her in the OCA lobby. Jazzmyn is a local writer who was deeply influenced living in the middle east as a child of a military father stationed there in the 1950’s.
Join us for an afternoon of mystery and storytelling with Jazzmyn, accompanied by middle eastern food and fine wines available for purchase. Settle in and be transported!
Free admission, all donations happily accepted.
She writes “I am nine years old living in Damacus, Syria. My father is on a diplomatic assignment with the United Nations to ease tensions on the volatile border between Jordan and Israel. We are transferred from Damacus, Syria, to Jerusalem, Jordan in late 1955. I came to know and love my Bedouin neighbors. They kindly lend me their only donkey. I attend their daughter's wedding and join their family in the Suk to shop in the inner city of Jerusalem. I am envious of their beautiful, embroidered dresses and have fallen deeply in love with my kind and generous neighbors. Ten years ago, I picked up volume number one of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night" translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. The first of sixteen volumes of the stories Shah Razad told her emperor over one thousand nights in order to curtail his slaughter of every young, noble woman in her country. After completing the sixteen volumes of "Shah Razad" i felt compelled to continue this extraordinary tradition of storytelling, intended to transmit moral values, by adding my own story: Shah Razad...and the Djinns Who Loved Her.