Event Detail Information
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“The Long War: Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East” |
| Start Date: | 11/8/2007 |
| End Date: | 11/8/2007 |
| Event Time: | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM |
| Title: | “The Long War: Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East” |
| Location: | Robinson Building Complex |
| Other Location: | Robinson Auditorium |
| Event Category: | Lectures/Seminars -Social Science |
| Sponsor: | Eleanor Roosevelt College, the Department of History, IICAS, and IICAS Middle East Studies. |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| Admission Cost: | Free |
| Contact Name: | Events Coordinator |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 822-5297 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | iicas-events@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | Abstract: Mr. Shadid will speak about the implications of the war in Iraq on the Middle East. Iraq, in some ways, is a catalyst for change. In other ways, it mirrors the transformation already under way in the Middle East, as ideology makes way for hardening sectarian and ethnic lines that pose one of the greatest challenges to the region since colonialism. Mr. Shadid will explore that transformation in the talk, both through his experiences in Iraq, as well as time spent in Lebanon and Egypt. Bio: Anthony Shadid, 38, is the Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post. Since September 11, 2001, he has reported from most countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank. In March 2003, weeks before the U.S. invasion, he traveled to Iraq, his third visit there. He remained in Baghdad during the invasion, the fall of Saddam Hussein and the war’s aftermath. In 2005, he moved to Beirut, from where he has covered the rest of the Arab world. Before the Post, Shadid worked for the Boston Globe in Washington, covering diplomacy and the State Department. He began his career at the Associated Press in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles and Cairo, where he worked as a Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 1999. He is a native of Oklahoma City, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Shadid was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007 for his coverage of the Lebanese-Israeli war a year earlier. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from Iraq. That year, he was also the recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline writing and the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad. In 2003, Shadid was awarded the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for a series of dispatches from the Middle East while at the Globe. In 1997, Shadid was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club for his work on “Islam’s Challenge.” The four-part series, published by the AP in December 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published by Westview Press in December 2000. His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, was published in September 2005 by Henry Holt. |
