New York Times correspondent to discuss coverage of ‘Arab Spring’ at Oct. 28 lecture at Rice

ANTHONY SHADID

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the New York Times, will speak at Rice University Oct. 28 on the turmoil in the Middle East.

The lecture, titled “What My Eyes Can See: Covering the Arab Spring,” begins at 6:30 p.m. in Grand Hall of Rice Memorial Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Shadid is the author of “Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War,” a 2005 account of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq as seen through the eyes of ordinary Iraqis.

The event is sponsored by the Rice History Department and the Arab American Educational Foundation

For more information, contact Ussama Makdisi at 713-348-2561 or Makdisi@rice.edu.