[Peace] Fwd: AFST Upcoming Events

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: Center for African Studies <ecorr at uiuc.edu>
> Date: April 3, 2006 11:53:06 AM CDT
> To: mmcrump at uiuc.edu
> Subject: AFST Upcoming Events
>
> 1. Noon Seminar Series - Sahar Tawfiq, 04-05-06
>  2. Chris Abani, TODAY! April 3, IUB
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________________ 
> _____________________________________________
>
> 1.
> The Center for African Studies Presents
> Noon Seminars & Films, Spring 2006
>
>  April 5th
>  Rm. 101, International Studies Bldg,
>  910 S. Fifth, Champaign, IL
>  12 - 1 pm
>
> Sahar Tawfiq
>  Fulbright Visiting Specialist, UIUC & Egyptian novelist
>
>  "Media in the Arab World & Images of the US: Internet Culture in  
> Egypt"
>
>
>
> **Sahar Tawfiq will be participating in other events on campus.\**
>  He will be speaking at the Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center  
> - information below.
>
>
> Modern Egyptian Society Through the Eyes of its Women Writers
>
> Speaker:
> Sahar Tawfiq
> Egyptian Writer/translator, Educator &
>  Visiting Fulbright Fellow under the Program:
> Direct Access to the Muslim World
> http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0329fulbright.html
>
> Date / Time:
> Friday, April 7th at 7:30pm
> (after Maghrib)
>
> Location:
> CIMIC  
> (Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center)
> 106 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://cimic.prairienet.org
>  217-344-1555
>
> Parking through S. Busy Ave.
>
> _______________________________________________________________________ 
> __________________________________________________________
>
> 2.
>
>  Chris Abani
> 4:30, Monday, April 3
> IUB, Author's Corner, Second Floor
>   
> Author of three works of fiction
> Becoming Abigail (2006)
> GraceLand (2004)
> Masters of the Board (1985)
>
> and three works of poetry
> Dog Woman (2004)
> Daphne's Lot (2003)
> Kalakuta Republic (2001)
>
>  Associate Professor at the University of California Riverside, Chris  
> Abani teaches also in the MFA Program at Antioch University Los  
> Angeles.  He is the recipient of many honors, including the 2001 PEN  
> USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Award, a 2003 Lannan  
> Literary Fellowship, the 2005 PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a 1983  
> Delta Fiction Award in his native Nigeria.  This fall Copper Canyon  
> Press will release his fourth book of poems, Hands Washing Water.
>
>
>   "GRACELAND announces itself as a worthy heir to Chinua Achebe's  
> Things Fall Apart. Like that classic of Nigerian literature, it gives  
> a multifaceted, human face to a culture struggling to find its own  
> identity while living with somebody else's."
>  -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
>
> "In [DOG WOMAN's] heart rousing and lyrically complex poems, the poet  
> enacts the reconstruction of his feminized selves, and his personae  
> struggle to re-form and transform both themselves and the difficult  
> worlds they inhabit. DOG WOMAN is a daring, trailblazing, and  
> important book; it's a vital addition to the poetry of our times."
>  --Maurya Simon
>
>
>
>
> The Center for African Studies, UIUC
> to be removed from this list email ecorr at uiuc.edu


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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