While most of us here in San Francisco won't be able to attend this event in Haifa, we wanted to let you know about a conference one of our grantees is hosting. Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women, celebrates its fifth anniversary this week with a conference entitled, Home and Exile in Queer Experience. The group also just published a book of the same title, Home and Exile in the Queer Experience: Collection of Articles about Lesbian and Homosexual Identity, which is one of the first books to be published in Arabic on the subject.