"Reading Lebanon"
Thursday, March 22, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Michael Klein Conference Room
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as New School faculty, staff, and alumni with valid ID; reservations strongly recommended.
Featuring writers, filmmakers, and academics reading selections from Lebanese writing or writing that inspires thought on the recent wars in Lebanon. The event is part of the “Focus on Lebanon” series, a cultural intervention that highlights the efforts of Lebanon’s culture workers who have struggled to document and convey the cost of war and displacement on their communities.
With:
Elias Khoury, a leading Arab public intellectual who is teaching literature at NYU this term
Other Participants:
• Ammiel Alcalay, poet and translator, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, Queens College, New York City
• Sinan Antoon, poet, novelist and filmmaker, Assistant Professor, New York University
• Tom McCarthy, director and screenwriter, New York City
• Mariam Said
• Sherene Seikaly, Senior Editor, Arab Studies Journal, doctoral candidate in the Department of History, New York University
• Anne Waldman, poet, Professor of Poetics, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado
This event is organized by the Kevorkian Center, New York University, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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EVENT INFORMATION: 212.229.5353, specialprograms@newschool.edu, or www.newschool.edu/publicprograms.
Thursday, March 22, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Michael Klein Conference Room
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as New School faculty, staff, and alumni with valid ID; reservations strongly recommended.
Featuring writers, filmmakers, and academics reading selections from Lebanese writing or writing that inspires thought on the recent wars in Lebanon. The event is part of the “Focus on Lebanon” series, a cultural intervention that highlights the efforts of Lebanon’s culture workers who have struggled to document and convey the cost of war and displacement on their communities.
With:
Elias Khoury, a leading Arab public intellectual who is teaching literature at NYU this term
Other Participants:
• Ammiel Alcalay, poet and translator, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, Queens College, New York City
• Sinan Antoon, poet, novelist and filmmaker, Assistant Professor, New York University
• Tom McCarthy, director and screenwriter, New York City
• Mariam Said
• Sherene Seikaly, Senior Editor, Arab Studies Journal, doctoral candidate in the Department of History, New York University
• Anne Waldman, poet, Professor of Poetics, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado
This event is organized by the Kevorkian Center, New York University, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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EVENT INFORMATION: 212.229.5353, specialprograms@newschool.edu, or www.newschool.edu/publicprograms.
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