Book Conversation: The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul by Sandor Jaszberenyi with Gabriel Sanders

Come join Hungarian journalist Sandor Jaszbereny in conversation with journalist Gabriel Sanders as they discuss Jaszbereny’s latest book of short stories The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul: More Stories from the Middle East and Beyond. Told from the perspective of a Cairo-based European war correspondent, the book is, above all, about a journalist examining some of today’s most pressing Middle East conflicts while forced to question his own assumptions and haunted by his own demons.

Sandor Jaszberenyi is the author of The Devil is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe Books, 2014), and The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul, which won Hungary’s Libri Literary Prize in 2017. As a correspondent for Hungarian news sites. he has covered major Middle East conflicts and the war in Ukraine. Jászberényi divides his time between Budapest and Cairo.

Gabriel Sanders is one of the founding editors of Tablet, an online Jewish magazine of art and ideas. His writing and reviews have appeared in the Forward, Bookforum, Time Out New York, The New York Times Book Review, and other outlets.











When: Thu., Mar. 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Shakespeare & Co. (Upper West Side)
2020 Broadway (btw. 69th & 70th Sts.)
212-738-0001
Price: Free
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Come join Hungarian journalist Sandor Jaszbereny in conversation with journalist Gabriel Sanders as they discuss Jaszbereny’s latest book of short stories The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul: More Stories from the Middle East and Beyond. Told from the perspective of a Cairo-based European war correspondent, the book is, above all, about a journalist examining some of today’s most pressing Middle East conflicts while forced to question his own assumptions and haunted by his own demons.

Sandor Jaszberenyi is the author of The Devil is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe Books, 2014), and The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul, which won Hungary’s Libri Literary Prize in 2017. As a correspondent for Hungarian news sites. he has covered major Middle East conflicts and the war in Ukraine. Jászberényi divides his time between Budapest and Cairo.

Gabriel Sanders is one of the founding editors of Tablet, an online Jewish magazine of art and ideas. His writing and reviews have appeared in the Forward, Bookforum, Time Out New York, The New York Times Book Review, and other outlets.

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