Dear ,

I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you the latest Newsletter from the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism (ISCZ).

Please find below a link to our most recent post, "After Losing the Argument: Israel’s Unfolding Illiberal International" by By Tariq Kenney-Shawa.

You are also invited to explore following events, opportunities, and resources:

• The latest Librarian's Corner, an author spotlight and reading recommendation from ISCZ Library Manager Dee Roberts
  
  • We are excited to announce that the book Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries, to which Dee contributed, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Palestine Book Awards
• An invitation to FOSNA's Preach Palestine 2026: Gestating Liberation, a complete Advent liturgy designed for preachers and faith communities to use during the Advent season
• A link to download the Communiqué from the recent Christianity without Christian Zionism conference, held in Istanbul. 
• An opportunity to register for the upcoming Church at the Crossroads conference, taking place November 2026
• An invitation to catch up with Season 1 of the Bad Theology: Busted podcast.
  
• Finally, an opportunity to support the essential work of ISCZ.

Best,

Jesse Steven Wheeler

Associate Executive Director, FOSNA: A Christian Voice for Palestine

Hala Alyan (1986— ) is a Palestinian-American writer, poet, and clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, addiction, and cross-cultural behavior. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, her family lived in Kuwait after her birth but sought political asylum in the United States when Iraqi forces invaded the country. She graduated from the American University of Beirut and from Columbia University. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at Rutgers University and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University. She is the author of the novels Salt Houses (2017) and The Arsonists' City (2021), the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home (2025), and five poetry collections. I’ll Tell You When I’m Home is a stunningly lyrical and brutally honest quest for motherhood, selfhood, and peoplehood. It is a powerful story of unraveling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated. As her baby grows in the body of another woman, in another country, Hala finds her own life unraveling—a husband who wants to leave; the cost of past traumas and addictions threatening to resurface; the city of her youth, Beirut, on the brink of crisis. She turns to family stories and communal myths: of grandmothers mapping their lives through Palestine, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon; of eradicated villages and invading armies; of places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men that left and women that stayed; of the contradictions of her own Midwestern childhood, and adolescence in various Arab cities. Her memoir won the GLCA New Writers Award for creative nonfiction in 2026 and was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award. The book was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize.

Editor's Note: The new book Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries, to which ISCZ library manager Dee Roberts contributed, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Palestine Book Awards. Edited by Mary L. Onorato and Nora Lester Murad, the book is available from Library Juice Press. Listen to Dee's interview on WRFG 86.3 Atlanta, discussing the Palestine, Christian Zionism, media literacy, and their contribution to the book.