[Peace] Tariq Ali in-residence at Unit One/Allen Hall

[Haber, Laura]

please forward widely:

Internationally renowned political commentator, novelist, and playwright,
Tariq Ali will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 10/18-10/21. He
will be speaking every night of his residency. See below for his schedule.
All events are open to the public and take place at Allen Hall, 1005 W.
Gregory, Urbana. Free parking is available in the parking garage across the
street. 

About Tariq Ali:
Tariq Ali, born in Lahore, Pakistan, is an internationally renowned
political commentator, novelist, filmmaker, and playwright based in London.
He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics,
including the bestseller The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and
Modernity, and Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq. He has written
five novels, scripts for both stage and screen, and is an editor of the New
Left Review. He was prominently involved in 60s antiwar and radical
politics; Mick Jagger, a personal friend, is said to have written Street
Fighting Man in his honor. 

Schedule:
Monday, October 18
		8pm - Clash of Fundamentalisms or War Against Terror?

Tuesday, October 19
		8pm - History as Fiction/Fiction as History: the Project of
the Islam Quintet

Wednesday, October 20
		8pm - War and Democracy: Iraq/USA

Thursday, October 21
		8pm - Political Theater (with DVD of Iranian Nights, a short
play by Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali)


Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu