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Reading & Discussions

May 2012
Tuesday, May, 15, 6:00 pm	Rereading Manto's "Letters to Uncle Sam" in Perilous Times. With Saadia Toor

December 2010
Sunday, December, 19, 6:00 pm	Great Conversations: An Evening with Renowned South African Poet Breyten Breytenbach
Thursday, December, 2, 7:00 pm	Dramatic Readings of Excerpts from the Plays of Jalila Baccar

November 2010
Tuesday, November, 23, 7:00 pm	The Poetry of Najwan Darwish - Followed by a Discussion with Poet Moderated by Bashir Abu Manneh

October 2010
Saturday, October, 30, 6:00 pm	Syrian Poet ADONIS - Moderated by Khaled Mattawa
Thursday, October, 14, 7:00 pm	Ka’annani Ana (As if I Were Myself) by Omar Khalifah

August 2009
Thursday, August, 6, 7:30 pm	Spoken Word and Free Verse with Poet Hind Shoufani

April 2009
Wednesday, April, 15, 7:00 pm	An Evening of Contemporary Arab Literature

March 2009
Monday, March, 30, 7:00 pm	Jean Genet's "Un Captif Amoureux" (Prisoner of Love) with an Introduction by Ahdaf Soueif

December 2008
Wednesday, December, 10, 6:00 pm	Accountability for Torture and Rendition with David Cole, Moderated by Issa Mikel

September 2008
Tuesday, September, 30, 7:30 pm	Israel-Palestine: Beyond the Headllines with Alison Weir Moderated by Brian Drolet

May 2006
Thursday, May, 11, 7:30 pm	Ismail Khalidi

December 2005
Tuesday, December, 6, 7:00 pm	Lawrence Joseph

July 2005
Wednesday, July, 13, 7:00 pm	Betty Shamieh

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