New Eyes on the Arab World: Breaking Down Barriers of Fear and Prejudice

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New Eyes on the Arab World: Breaking Down Barriers of Fear and Prejudice

30 May 2009

Speakers: Raja Alem, Tom McDonough, Joe Sacco, Peter Theroux, Sulaiman Al Hattlan

Four writers, Peter Theroux, Raja Alem, Tom McDonough, and Joe Sacco, Arab and American, who have taken innovative approaches to portraying the Arab World to an American audience discuss the challenges they have faced and the successes they have achieved in breaking down the barriers of fear and prejudice through their work. Journalist and writer Sulaiman Al Hattlan moderates.

Whether through travelogue, memoir, graphic novel, children's literature or translation, these writers have widened the lens and sharpened the focus of American readers' view, setting a new precedent for sensitivity, creativity and insight in literature about the Arab World.

This video was kindly provided by The New York Public Library