Lecture about To Kill a Mockingbird at the BA
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Alexandria—Dr. Nazek Fahmy, Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, will give a Lecture around the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by American Author Harper Lee, at the BA on Wednesday, 25 March 2009.
This Lecture is part of the activities of The Big Read Egypt/U.S. , a cultural project including various public events around a selected novel.
It is worth mentioning that The Big Read is a collaborative Global Cultural Initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest and the Institute of Museums and Library Services. It was a result of the National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report in 2004 that stated a great decline in the percentage of Americans reading for pleasure. The Initiative aimed at providing local organizations with a collection of books by eminent American writers and supporting them in holding a number of cultural events on a selected book. The initiative included exchanging reading between Americans and other nations as a global cultural initiative, and thus the project “The Big Read: Egypt/US” emerged. It aims at introducing Egyptian readers with American literature and introducing American readers with Egyptian literature. The Project is implemented by, in addition to the above mentioned American organizations, the US Department of State. The Egyptian partners are the American University in Cairo (AUC), the Egyptian Association for Educational Resources (E-ERA), and the BA.
The Lecture will start at 6:00 pm at the BACC Lectures Hall.