Sami Al Jundi was sentenced to 10 years after a bomb he made and intended to use against Israeli police killed a friend. Al Jundi's sentence included plenty of torture, but also an "extraordinary metamorphosis from militant to a passionate advocate of nonviolence," according to the press release. It's all captured in the book The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker, by Al Jundi and writer Jen Marlowe. Tuesday, Marlowe will be at Orca Books in Olympia to discuss her work.
[Orca Books, 6 p.m., free, 509 Fourth Ave. E, Olympia, 360.352.0123]
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