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A conversation with
Dr. Nawal el Saadawi
World-renowned champion of women’s rights, former
political prisoner, and author.
With Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan & Bina Sharif
Moderator Barbara
Nimri Aziz (WBAI).
with a reading by
Sohair Soukkary
The Brecht Forum /
451 West Street, NYC (Train: A, C, E to 14th St., go
west to West St.)
Thursday, April 12, 2007
6:30-8:00 PM -
tickets: $15-25
Refreshments served. For more
information contact:
Louisreyesrivera@aol.com
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| Dr. Nawal El Saadawi is a leading
advocate for the rights of Arab women. Her
novels and books have had a deep effect on
women over the last 4 decades. A former
political prisoner in Egypt, she lived in
exile for years due to numerous death
threats made by fanatical terrorist
organizations. Dr. El Saadawi has been
awarded several national and international
literary prizes, has lectured in many
universities, and has organized many
international and national conferences. |
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Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan,
Professor of English at Montclair State
University, has written extensively on
Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Criticism, and
Theatre in South Asia. She is also a gifted
performance poet, expressing the joys and
sorrows of Arab women in her poems and
songs. |
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Bina Sharif , a
gifted NY actress and visual artist, has
written and directed plays performed at
Theater for The New City, Mabou Mines, ABC
No Rio, and elsewhere. Her one-woman play
"Afghan Woman" has been performed in the USA
and in Pakistan. Through her visual art she
expresses the turmoil and hope of living as
a woman in Islam, an artist in America, and
an American in the world of post September
11. |
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Barbara Nimri Aziz,
a NY anthropologist and journalist, has been
featuring Arab writers on her weekly
program, Tahrir, broadcast over Pacifica-WBAI,
99.5 fm, NY. Her upcoming book, Swimming
Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with
Iraq, will be released later this year.
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| Sohair Soukkary Sohair
Soukkary is a representative to the
United Nations of the Arab Women Solidarity
Association (AWSA). A past president of the
Arab and American Women’s Friendship
Association (AAWFA), she has an M.S. in
Linguistics from Georgetown University. |
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| Soukkary is the author of the
Sing-And-Learn-A-Language Series: Arabic,
a unique method of language learning and
teaching based exclusively on songs,
which she initiated at Georgetown
University. She is a freelance columnist
for the Arabic daily newspapers Al-Ahram
of Cairo and Al-Quds al-Arabi of London. |
posted 21 March
2007 |
