Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Abdelrahman El-Gendy
Date:
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 16:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person:
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email:
global@pitt.edu
The Global Studies Center will host a series of conversations with Pittsburgh Network for Threatened Scholars(PiNTS).These writers and artists are exiled from their countries and now call Pittsburgh home.
Abdelrahman El-Gendy was a six year political prisoner in Egypt between 2013 and 2020.He is a writer and journalist, whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Truthout and more.Abdelrahman is a Dietrich Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's non-fiction writing MFA, a Heinz Fellow at PITT's Global Studies Center, and he was a finalist for the 2023 Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vSauuXSYTZGecTDY-R3Raw
UCIS Unit:
Global Studies Center
Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No
Pitt Undergrads:
31
Pitt Grad Students:
3