Margalit Fox, a New York Times journalist trained as a linguist, accompanied a team of researchers to a remote Bedouin village in Israel, where a remarkable sign language arose that is used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. Talking Hands transports readers to an exotic place to illuminate a family of languages largely overlooked by science, while providing an extraordinary window into how all human language works inside the mind.

An American Sign Language interpreter will be present for the entire event.