PBS Convenes Nat’l Dialogue on Arab Americans... & Shadid Remembered at Book Awards

Shadid Remembered at Book Awards You are invited to honor the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid (1968-2012) on Saturday, Sept. 29 at the AANM, as Nada Bakri (right) accepts a Lifetime Achievement Award on her husband’s behalf during the 2012 Arab American Book Award Ceremony. This event celebrates the year’s best books by and about Arab Americans; it features a sumptuous strolling buffet, open bar, live music, and following the award ceremony, a book signing with authors including Diana Abu-Jaber (above left). Tickets, just $20/$15 Museum Members/students, are available online only HERE. Click HERE to listen to a recent Democracy Now interview with Bakri, a respected journalist in her own right; as was her husband, Bakri is a correspondent for The New York Times. Shadid died while reporting from Syria earlier this year, just prior to the publication of his book, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East.

PBS Convenes Nat’l Dialogue on Arab Americans Public libraries in major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, Houston, Boston and Detroit are being asked to host events, forums and dialogues in connection with the new PBS series Arab American Stories, currently airing on stations across the country. The Battle Creek, Mich.-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation has granted series originator Detroit Public Television (DPTV) $250,000 to bring the television content to life through community conversations, beginning next month, that are designed to engage non-Arab Americans as well as Arab Americans. A website will compile and convene content, and host virtual community discussions featuring topical experts. DPTV will also write a curriculum for middle and high school students that will meet national core standards. Read more and see a list of participating libraries HERE.