Meet & Greet
Date: 10/11/2019
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Lounge of Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
Lecture
Date: 10/11/2019
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Lounge of Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
Lecture Title: Shakespeare in Arabic by Abdul Sattar Jawad
Speaker Bio: Abdul Sattar Jawad, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Duke University, is a writer, translator, and poet. He did his Ph.D. in London’s City University, 1984. Jawad published 15 books on literature and journalism and edited several literary periodicals. He taught at Harvard, Mississippi, NCCU, and North Carolina University. Jawad was Secretary General of the Iraqi Writers Union and edited several newspapers and literary periodicals. He is an expert on the works of Shakespeare: https://sites.duke.edu/abdulsattarjawad/ and T. S. Eliot, see: T.S. Eliot in Baghdad, Edwin Mellen, 2014.
The Meet & Greet and Lecture are open to the public.