Jonathan Garfinkel launched his memoir Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide (Viking Canada) in Toronto on Sept. 18 with the help of a band and a bellydancer. (Photos courtesy of Penguin Canada)

Musician David Buchbinder (on trumpet) accompanies his wife, bellydancer Roula Said.

Garfinkel violates basic This Is Not A Reading Series protocol by, well, reading. (It’s right there in the title, Jonathan!)