Location: Starr Auditorium, MacMillan 117, 167 Thayer Street. Green is chairman of Greenaap Consultants Ltd., the Dublin-based investment vehicle that manages the assets of Green and his family.
Green AM '80 P '99 '01, former trustee of the University. The Peter Green Lectures on the Modern Middle East are funded by a gift from Peter B. He is currently working on a third book, still untitled, set in his family’s ancestral village in southern Lebanon. His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, was published in September 2005 by Henry Holt. He is drawn to his family’s origins at a time when, after years of hard travel and conflict reporting. Shadid is the author of two books, L egacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published by Westview Press in December 2000. Shadid’s third, lies the strong, open voice of its author. He has also received the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ award for deadline writing (2004), the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad (2004) and the George Polk Award for foreign reporting (2003). In 2007, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Lebanon. invasion of Iraq and the occupation that followed. Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 for his coverage of the U.S. You write in the prologue that the only way to respond to what you are experiencing in Iraq was to "surrender to the ambiguities and simply tell stories." Tell me what you mean by that."Stones Without People: Loss and Nostalgia in Lebanon, Iraq and the Middle East," with Anthony Shadid, foreign correspondent, New York Times.Īnthony Shadid, an award-winning journalist and author, has reported from most countries in the Middle East over a 15-year career.
We spoke recently at his mother's home outside Washington, where Shadid took time off from his reporting to write the book. Born and raised in Oklahoma, of Lebanese. In his new book, "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War," he's woven together many of their stories. Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid went to war in Iraq, but not as an embedded journalist.
With a decade of experience throughout the Middle East, his specialty has been getting beyond the guns and battles and into the homes and minds of Iraqis themselves. The 37-year-old Shadid is an Arab-American who grew up in Oklahoma and speaks Arabic fluently. One of the most successful has been Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post who earned a Pulitzer Prize last year for his reports. From the dangers of a war zone to the differences of culture, covering Iraq has been an especially difficult assignment for American journalists.
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