The Middle East has long been a cauldron of conflict and differing perspectives. Learn how multiple administrations addressed it, and the personal toll of those decisions. What was it like to experience a hijacking? How did a member of the Syrian elite become an activist during the Arab Spring?
| Fast Passes: | This event has free Fast Passes. Fast Passes are not available yet. |
| Where: | Student Union Gallagher Theater (Seats 337)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
| Signing area: | UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Current Issues / Politics / Social Science |
| Moderator: | Bruce Wright |
Loubna Mrie is a Syrian journalist, photographer, and writer, and a frequent commentator on Syrian and Middle Eastern affairs. The recipient of fellowships and residencies from Magnum Foundation, Ucross Foundation, and MacDowell, she has published work in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Time, and London Review of Books....
Mimi Nichter is an award-winning cultural anthropologist and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. A Margaret Mead award recipient, she authored "Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parents Say about Dieting," as well as the recent released "Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma and Resilience," written about her being held as a hostage in Jordan in 1970....
Daniel E. Zoughbie is a scientist, historian, and expert on presidential decision making. He authored "Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" and was appointed to positions at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Bologna, University College Dublin, University of Athens, and Campus Bio Medico University of Rome....
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