When his Uncle Hizkel is arrested, Kabi and his family face an uncertain future, as do all Jews living in Baghdad. It is 1950 and each member of Kabi's circle has a different dream: his mother wants to return to the Moslem quarter where she felt safer; his father wants to emigrate to Israel and grow rice there; Salim, his headmaster, wants Arabs and Jews to be equal, and Abu Edouard just wants to care for his beloved doves.
To mark the launch of the English version of his book The Dove Flyer Eli Amir will talk about the turbulent era of the 1950s when Jews in Iraq were faced with stark choices, their absorption into Israel and their contribution to their new country.

Eli Amir was born in Baghdad in 1937 and left for Israel in 1950. A prize-winning author, he is also a social activist, once saying in Cairo, 'How can there be peace without us knowing each other?' He has worked for the Israeli government in immigration absorption and aliya and has served on the UN committee for Palestinian Refugees.

Copies of 'The Dove Flyer'will be on sale at a discount.