Ansary will visit the campus to deliver a talk on “Why Islam Has Trouble with Modernity”–a preview of his upcoming book, “World History through Islamic Eyes.”

October 24, 2007

(Time and venue to be announced) 

University of Arizona has picked West of Kabul, East of New York as its common freshman reading text.  Ansary will visit the campus to sign books, answer questions, chat with students, deliver a speech, whatever.

October 20, 2007

(Details to come)

Tamim Ansary reads a short story that addresses the theme The Lesser Evil. This is part of San Francisco’s fabulous week-long annual Liquake Festival which begins on October 6 and ends a week later with the Litcrawl–dont miss any of it; go to www.litquake.org for details.  

Thursday, October 11, 7 pm
Varnish Fine Art
77 Natoma Street (at 2nd Street)
(FREE–but you must be 21 or over)

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time TBA
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
1625 Eastover Dr
Jackson, MS 39211

As part of the Phi Theta Kappa’s year long program of lectures and workshops, Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power, Ansary will deliver a lecture on the history of Afghanistan and the state of the country and region after the Taliban.  The lecture will be delivered by closed circuit television to 300 colleges around the country.

If you grow up in an Islamic country, world history has a different shape. This lecture series, originally sponsored by the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning and delicered at various venues around the San Frnacisco Bay Area, was broadcast over six weeks by KALW radio: Ansary gives a glimpse of the last 14 centuries from an Islamocentric point of view. Seeing modernity as the latest chapter in this “other” narrative helps illuminate the conflict now straining the planet and may even point toward a way out. The lectures may be dowloaded from www.kalw.org.