The Rockland Public Library will host Norman Olsen on Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM, for a Camden Conference community event. Olsen will discuss from personal experience 34 years of deteriorating prospects for Middle East peace. This event will take place in the Community Room and will be livestreamed via Zoom. For more information or for […]
Turkey is a middle power located in the Middle East - indeed, a land in the middle between Europe and Asia. Turkey has always been a challenging ally of the United States, but the country played an essential part in the days of the Cold War countering Soviet influence. Now Turkey is invested in and […]
Join cookbook author Sandra Garson at Scarborough Public Library for a talk on the food of the Middle East, followed by a catered lunch. Space is limited; registration is required. Garson, a former caterer and food entrepreneur, has published numerous articles and two cookbooks. After closing her Maine bakery and catering business, she helped establish […]
The Middle East is a generally arid region with few rivers. But as a result, the rivers that do flow there have an outsized importance, both physically and historically. In fact, some of these resources are listed among the great rivers of the world. This talk will focus on a few of these rivers and […]
Coexistence, My Ass!, an award-winning documentary film based on the provocative one-woman show of Israeli peace activist and comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, will be screened at the Strand Theatre in Rockland on Sunday, January 18 at 2:00 p.m. The film, co-presented by Points North and the Camden Conference, follows Shuster Eliassi as she challenges audiences […]
For January Readers’ Circle will discuss the book Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad. The book follows Sonia Nasir, a British-Palestinian actress who returns to Palestine after a personal crisis in London. Reconnecting with her roots and her estranged sister in Haifa, Sonia becomes involved in a politically charged Arabic-language production of Hamlet in the West […]
Join Aurora Cobb, of the Patten Free Library in Bath, for a discussion of journalist Suzy Hansen’s Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, a selection from the 2026 Camden Conference reading list.
There are more than 123 million people displaced in the world today, many of whom hail from, or live in, the Middle East and North Africa. Why has this region experienced so much forced migration and what is the significance of these many layered movements? Nadia El-Shaarawi will discuss the contours of displacement in and […]