Cultural Arts Festival

Book Club – Peter Blauner: Picture in the Sand

A historical suspense novel about faith, hope, terror, and the movies, Picture in the Sand, shares the story of a young movie fan named Ali Hassan who gets a dream job working for Cecil B. DeMille in Egypt on a film about the greatest of Jewish liberation stories, The Ten Commandments. The dream turns into a nightmare when Ali gets caught up in real-life events including the aftermath of the war in Israel and his country’s struggle with violent religious fanatics.