![]() After Bassam’s daughter was shot and killed by an Israeli border guard in 2005, he joined the Parents Circle-Families Forum, an organization founded for Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost relatives to the violence. ![]() ![]() Upon release, Bassam co-founded Combatants for Peace, a grassroots movement committed to nonviolence in Israel and the West Bank, and got a degree in Holocaust Studies in England. Palestinian Bassam Aramin’s life was transformed when, jailed as a teenager, he became interested in Dr. The title, Apeirogon, refers to a shape with an infinite but countable number of sides, and this image serves as a metaphor for both political complexity as well as the episodic manner in which the story unfolds. ![]() Colum McCann’s ambitious new novel tells the true story of the friendship between two men brought together by tragedy. ![]()
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