[Peace] TONIGHT / Zeitoun / author to talk about his book (Hurricane Katrina, Bush-era crisis management, injustices) TONIGHT / 7pm / Illini Union

[Karen Medina]

Reminder: Tonight, Dave Eggers talking about his book "Zeitoun" at 7pm at
the Illini Union / Illini rooms.


>From The New Yorker<http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000242411>
Through the story of one man’s experience after Hurricane Katrina, Eggers
draws an indelible picture of Bush-era crisis management. Abdulrahman
Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in
New Orleans and protect his property while his family flees. After the
levees break, he uses a small canoe to rescue people, before being arrested
by an armed squad and swept powerlessly into a vortex of bureaucratic
brutality. When a guard accuses him of being a member of Al Qaeda, he sees
that race and culture may explain his predicament. Eggers, compiling his
account from interviews, sensibly resists rhetorical grandstanding, letting
injustices speak for themselves. His skill is most evident in how closely he
involves the reader in Zeitoun’s thoughts. Thrown into one of a series of
wire cages, Zeitoun speculates, with a contractor’s practicality, that
construction of his prison must have begun within a day or so of the
hurricane.

* Dave Eggers is also an alumnus of UIUC.

* Zeitoun is the book being read for the One Book, One Campus

* This event is free and open to everyone.

* Copies of Zeitoun will be available for purchase at the event.






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karen medina
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"In this universe, we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the
ability to ask questions." (Mary Oliver, American poet)
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