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Subject: [AUT] Samir Kassir - Being Arab SOAS Event
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:51:05 +0000 (GMT)
From: Rowan Wilson
Reply-To: Autonomia, Operaismo, and Class Composition

To: aut-op-sy@lists.resist.ca

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@verso.co.uk

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