{"title": "Kim Ghattas in conversation with Clarissa Ward", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lala Books", "address": "Grove Lane 4a, SE5 8SY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/111081447981", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/true-crime"], "description": "An evening conversation at the bookshop Lala Books celebrating the launch of Kim Ghattas' new book 'The Best Kind of American'. Ghattas, a journalist and author who has covered the Middle East for more than twenty years, will be in conversation with Clarissa Ward, CNN's Chief International Correspondent. The book is a work of true crime following one American family's search for answers after the 1984 murder of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University, in war-torn Beirut. 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