Juliana Maio, JCC Visiting Author

City of the Sun: The Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque is proud to present our New Mexico Jewish community’s annual celebration of the written word.

And the fifth (and this year's final) author up is:

Juliana Maio

City of the Sun

Wednesday October 29 ~ 11:30 am
Luncheon $25 (reservations required); book $16
Click here to register.

It's 1941 in wartime Egypt, and Cairo is playing host to a stream of refugees, spies and soldiers from around the world.

Jewish/Egyptian-born author Juliana Maio's enthralling historical novel sets a love story against the backdrop of an increasingly threatened Jewish community with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood. Passion, espionage, and shifting alliances converge in a time and place that sowed much of the turbulence in today's Middle East, which Maio will also address.

Here is a forshbite (that's Yiddish for hors d'oeuvres, one of the most-looked-up words on the Internet) of what's in store for Albuquerque.