# Event Details - **Event Name**: Mimi Nichter: Hostage - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Mimi Nichter presents her novel, Hostage, where she shares survival, silence, and reclaiming her voice with Amy Hirshberg Lederman.About this EventWhen her plane was hijacked in 1970, Mimi Nichter became part of aviation history. In Hostage, she tells her story of survival, silence, and reclaiming her voice. In conversation with Amy Hirshberg Lederman.ABOUT THE BOOKOn September 6, 1970, twenty-year-old Mimi Nichter was on a flight home to New York from a summer in Israel when armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine crash-landed her plane in a remote desert in Jordan. Passengers were held on board for six days in sweltering heat without flushable toilets or running water. Most were sent home, but Mimi—accused of being an Israeli soldier--and thirty-one others were held hostage in Amman, fearing for their lives as a violent civil war erupted around them.In Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience, Mimi recounts her survival of the hijacking of Trans World Airlines Flight 741, the first incident of international terrorism and one of the most significant events in aviation history.After her dramatic release, Mimi returned to college a different person. Plagued with terrifying memories, she silenced her experience. One year later, striving to live in the present, she backpacked across Africa and Asia with her boyfriend and in doing so found a path forward, but her buried trauma resurfaced each time a new global hostage crisis occurred. Mimi finally realizes that to fully heal, she must explore how this trauma, and her silence about it, has shaped her life. Told with courage and empathy, Hostage is the story of how one's strength and humanity can flourish even in the most fearful and untenable circumstances.ABOUT THE AUTHORMimi Nichter (née Beeber) is a cultural and medical anthropologist, public speaker, and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of four anthropology-related books and the recipient of the Margaret Mead Award and the George Foster Practicing Medical Anthropology Award. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/tempe/mimi-nichter-hostage/100001982919956970 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fmimi-nichter-hostage-tickets-1982919956970 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Tempe - **state**: AZ - **country**: United States - **location**: Changing Hands Bookstore - **lat**: 33.3624661 - **long**: -111.9126201 - **full address**: Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Changing Hands Bookstore (https://allevents.in/org/changing-hands-bookstore/22600527) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/b6827a70269b95f0312e6bb7b9839c09a423b8d8f20de508ac1654c96c451c2b-rimg-w1200-h600-dc464632-gmir.jpg?v=1771068952 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/99d1a7d1bb7cf02da7952dac4168cfda0170e8e72cf6e3ca13703208db5024ad-rimg-w400-h400-dc454530-gmir.jpg?v=1771068951 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Changing Hands Bookstore - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Mimi Nichter: Hostage ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Mimi Nichter: Hostage", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/b6827a70269b95f0312e6bb7b9839c09a423b8d8f20de508ac1654c96c451c2b-rimg-w1200-h600-dc464632-gmir.jpg?v=1771068952", "startDate": "2026-03-19", "endDate": "2026-03-19", "url": "https://allevents.in/tempe/mimi-nichter-hostage/100001982919956970", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Changing Hands Bookstore", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "6428 South McClintock Drive", "postalCode": "85283", "addressLocality": "Tempe", "addressRegion": "AZ", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "33.3624661", "longitude": "-111.9126201" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Mimi Nichter presents her novel, Hostage, where she shares survival, silence, and reclaiming her voice with Amy Hirshberg Lederman.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-03", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-19", "validFrom": "2026-04-03", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/tempe/mimi-nichter-hostage/100001982919956970" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-03", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-03", "url": "https://allevents.in/tempe/mimi-nichter-hostage/100001982919956970", "price": 0, "name": "RSVP" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Changing Hands Bookstore", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/changing-hands-bookstore/22600527", "description": "Arizona's legendary Changing Hands Bookstore. 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