Events

Mothers and Daughters: A Conversation with Hanan al-Shaykh and Mariam Said

Cabot Intercultural Center 702
Boston


September 17, 2009
5:30- 7:00 p.m.

Speakers:

Hanan al-Shaykh, a Lebanese-born, London-based writer, author of "The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story" (Pantheon Books, 2009)

Mariam C. Said, Vice President, The Barenboim-Said Foundation USA, who published her mother's autobiography "A World I Loved: The story of an Arab Woman" (Nation Books, 2009)

Chair: Jonathan Wilson, Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Tufts University

Co-Sponsors: CHAT, Middle Eastern Studies Major, and the Department of German, Russian, Asian Languages and Literatures

More information and speakers bios: http://farescenter.tufts.edu/events/