Verso invite you to a panel discussion on the subject of the late Samir Kassir’s book ‘Being Arab’, winner of the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award 2007.  Details below.

 

THE ARAB MALAISE IS NOT THE RESULT OF MODERNITY BUT

OF MODERNITY’S COLLAPSE

 

A discussion of

 

Being Arab by Samir Kassir

Hardback £10.99 ISBN 9781844670994

 

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). 

Chaired by Brian Whitaker, Middle East Editor, Guardian.

 

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 by Verso in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS

Supported and recommended by Pen

 

All Welcome

This event is free and there is no need to book

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