[AUT] Samir Kassir - Being Arab SOAS Event

[Rowan Wilson <rowanwilsonwork@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Verso invite you to

 

THE ARAB MALAISE IS NOT THE RESULT OF MODERNITY BUT OF MODERNITY’S COLLAPSE

 

A discussion of

Being Arab by Samir Kassir

 

with

 

Sabry Hafez (Professor of Modern Arabic, SOAS), Nadim Shehadi (Middle East Programme, Chatham House), Karma Nabulsi ( Oxford academic, author and former PLO representative), and Ramsay Short (British-Lebanese journalist, writer and blogger). 

Chair to be confirmed

 

Samir Kassir (1960 – 2005) was one of Lebanon ’s best-known journalists and historians.  ‘Being Arab’ is an exploration of the current political and intellectual stagnation of the Arab world in which Samir Kassir considers the huge impact of modernity on the region and the accompanying shockwaves that turned society upside-down.

 

‘Being Arab’ recently received the Index on Censorship Freedom of _expression_ Award 2007

 

Tuesday 24^th April

7pm

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

 

Organised in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS

Supported by English PEN

 

All Welcome

This lecture is free and there is no need to book

 

For further information please contact Clara Heyworth at clarah@xxxxxxxxxxx

 

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