Sarah Lawrence College to Present Speaker on the Refugee Crisis February 17
By Judith Schwartzstein, Vice President for Publicity, Sarah Lawrence College
Feb. 15, 29017: Want to learn more about the current refugee crisis?
On Friday, February 17, at 5:00 pm in Miller Lecture Hall, author and professor of African studies at Oxford University Jonny Steinberg will be on campus to discuss his most recent book, A Man of Good Hope.
Steinberg, a Rhodes Scholar and the author of seven books, is a two-time winner of South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, and was an inaugural winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature awarded by Yale University.
A Man of Good Hope is the remarkable true story of a Somali refugee's journey across Africa, a narrative that speaks to the suffering and resilience of refugees throughout the world. Steinberg peels back the layers of Asad Abdullahi's story, laying bare the humanity and situating Abdullahi's story within the political and social upheavals of Steinberg's native South Africa.
The book has been adapted by South Africa's Isango Ensemble into a musical playing this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
The Miller Lecture Hall is in the Titsworth Building on the Sarah Lawrence College campus. For more information, call 914-395-2412.
Pictured here: An entrance to Sarah Lawrence College.
Photo by N. Bower
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