Afua hosts Owen Jones and Benjamin Moser at Kings Place for False Idols, an evening about Western empire: the myths it tells about itself, and what those myths still do to power, history and identity.

It is the first event Afua has curated herself, and the opening night of Born In Me Presents, a new series she is producing. After years of hosting at festivals, book tours, concerts, film premieres and theatre previews, she describes this one as “curating conversations based on what I feel is important, needed and crucially, can move us forward”.

Benjamin Moser joins her to discuss Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. Written from his perspective as a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and a Jewish man raised in a Zionist family, it is a book Afua calls one of the most important she has read: one that rethinks what truly protects Jewish identity and culture, and honours the humanity and history of Palestinians. Owen Jones brings The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It, which argues that Western societies are collapsing under the greed and overreach of their own elites, who would rather blame minorities and visible others than account for it.

False Idols takes place on Wednesday 9 December at Kings Place, 90 York Way, King’s Cross. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start, and both authors will be signing books on the night. Tickets are £25.

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