{"id":1407,"date":"2007-09-14T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2007-09-14T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T18:46:05","slug":"the-new-yorker-festival-rushdie-pamuk-and-packer-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/the-new-yorker-festival-rushdie-pamuk-and-packer-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker Festival — Rushdie, Pamuk and Packer! Oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 5, 2007, there are two fantastic discussions going on in New York for The New Yorker Festival<\/a>. Fortunately I don’t have to choose between them as I can’t make it to either of them, but if you’re in the tri-state area, you definitely should go:<\/p>\n

Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk<\/a> on Homeland
\n<\/p>\n

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay and educated in England. His novels include \u201cThe Moor\u2019s Last Sigh,\u201d \u201cThe Satanic Verses,\u201d \u201cShame,\u201d \u201cShalimar the Clown,\u201d and \u201cMidnight\u2019s Children,\u201d which won the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Booker of Bookers Prize. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He has also written a nonfiction collection, \u201cStep Across This Line,\u201d and a children\u2019s book, \u201cHaroun and the Sea of Stories.\u201d In June, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and he is Turkey\u2019s best-selling novelist. His books include \u201cThe White Castle,\u201d \u201cThe Black Book,\u201d \u201cThe New Life,\u201d \u201cMy Name Is Red,\u201d \u201cSnow,\u201d and \u201cIstanbul.\u201d \u201cOther Colors,\u201d a collection of his essays, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, is out in September. His most recent New Yorker essay, \u201cForbidden Fare,\u201d about street food in Istanbul, appeared in the July 9th & 16th issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

7 p.m. Highline Ballroom ($25)
\n431 West 16th Street <\/p>\n

The New Yorker Town Hall Meeting
\nIraq Revisited<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In 2005, The New Yorker Festival launched its inaugural Town Hall Meeting, which centered on the struggle for Iraq\u2019s future. Two years later\u2014with American troops still on the ground and a feckless Iraqi central government still in power, with widespread pessimism concerning both military and diplomatic progress, and with tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead and some two million Iraqi refugees spilling into neighboring countries\u2014the progress of the war and the future of Iraq, as well as that of the larger Middle East, are more uncertain than ever. This year\u2019s panel will address the most recent developments in the war and the options for the future now being considered.<\/p>\n

With Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi, Jon Lee Anderson, David Kilcullen, and Phebe Marr. Moderated by George Packer.<\/p>\n

Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi was born in Baghdad and spent many years in exile in England and the United States. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, he became Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense on the interim Iraqi Governing Council. In 2005, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the Iraqi transitional government, and the following year he left the government. He is the author of \u201cThe Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jon Lee Anderson, a staff writer at The New Yorker, reports frequently from Iraq and Afghanistan. His article \u201cThe Taliban\u2019s Opium War,\u201d about the poppy-eradication campaign in Uruzgan Province, appeared in the July 9th & 16th issue. He is the author of \u201cChe Guevara: A Revolutionary Life,\u201d \u201cThe Fall of Baghdad,\u201d and \u201cThe Lion\u2019s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan,\u201d a collection of his pieces for the magazine.<\/p>\n

David Kilcullen served for more than twenty years in the Australian Army and is the senior counter-insurgency adviser to General David Petraeus. He holds a doctorate in political anthropology and advocates the use of social science to combat the insurgency in Iraq. Part of the U.S. Army\u2019s official counter-insurgency manual is based on his article \u201cCountering Global Insurgency.\u201d He was the subject of \u201cKnowing the Enemy,\u201d by George Packer, which appeared in The New Yorker last year.<\/p>\n

Phebe Marr is a historian specializing in the Middle East and the author of \u201cThe Modern History of Iraq,\u201d which she published in 1985 and revised in 2004. She has testified before both houses of Congress, and has served as a fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace.<\/p>\n

George Packer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003. His article \u201cThe Lesson of Tal Afar,\u201d which was published in the magazine last year, won the Overseas Press Club\u2019s Ed Cunningham Award for the best magazine reporting from abroad. He is the author of \u201cThe Village of Waiting,\u201d \u201cBlood of the Liberals,\u201d and \u201cThe Assassins\u2019 Gate: America in Iraq,\u201d for which he received this year\u2019s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

7 p.m. Town Hall ($16)
\n123 West 43rd Street
\n(Tickets are also available at the Town Hall box office.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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