In the Washington City Paper blog Mark Athitakis writes: As you may have heard, some smart guy who helps give out the Nobel Prize in literature recently said that Americans are simply too “insular” and possessed of a restricting “ignorance” to produce great writing. So we have much to learn from the arrival of Suhayl…
Feed your mind and body. See the English Department in action. Meet famous novelists. Learn about the future of literature. Eat something sweet. Mingle with students, faculty, alumni. LITERATURE IN A GLOBAL AGE: PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION Featuring the British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi “Literature in a Global Age” is about the past…
Please join us for the debut reading of our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Suhayl Saadi. This FREE READING is at 8:00 PM at the George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, between 19th and 20th Streets (City View Room, 7th Floor). More information about Suhayl Saadi may be found here at the British Council…
The Judaic Studies Program at GW is pleased to announce that it will give awards of up to $2,000 each to 3 undergraduate students for travel to Israel in the 2008-09 academic year due to a generous grant from the Gudelsky Foundation. The awards will be given to students who demonstrate that travel to Israel…
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Hi, again. It’s me, Kirk. Did you hear about this?! [Washington Post]A grenade was found in Rock Creek Park this morning & removed by the army.Hooray! Efficiency! Like the Rock Creek’s maintenance worker, Gayle Wald “[saw] something, [said] something: she linked us to this post on Will Ostrem’s blog, Northern Light. The post highlights some…
We know it’s early to be advertising this, but why not place the date on your calendar now? Edward P. Jones, the first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, will give his inaugural reading on Thursday January 29 2009 in the Jack Morton Auditorium (School of Media and Public Affairs, 805 21st Street NW)….
Suhayl Saadi describes his talk on Monday, October 13, 2008; 8:15 p.m. (Media and Public Affairs Building. Room B07, 801 21st NW at H St NW, Washington, D.C. ) thus:¡Quejío!: Shout!’ A partial understanding of the interweaving ontologies of language, memory, time and place forms the basis of any creative literary endeavour. Mapping this process…
Our sincere apologies for the fact that our tea and sherry swilling party was cut short by the evacuation of the Academic Center due to a suspicious package. Alumni will be heartened to know that six brave faculty members endured the long wait for re-entry to Rome Hall, then imbibed the remaining sherry … and…
