Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 S San Pedro St
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Reza Aslan
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Thursday Nov 5, 2009 (8pm)
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$25
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Tonight's discussion pairs a young American scholar of Persian heritage whose main focus is clearing up misapprehensions about Islamic history and culture — with an eye toward geopolitical detente, and a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and journalist who examines every nuance of life in his ancestral and current hometown of Istanbul. Reza Aslan and Orhan Pamuk share a keen interest in the turbulent negotiation of the East-West divide, but where Aslan takes a broad view with implications for US foreign policy, Pamuk looks through the other end of that telescope, offering his own and others' life stories as a way to measure that which both unites and divides humanity.
