COLUMBIA J-School EVENT: Jim Sciutto, senior foreign correspondent of ABC News and author of “Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies in the Muslim World”
Wednesday night event at Columbia Journalism School - free and open to the public. NO RSVP required.
Columbia Journalism School and Columbia Law School’s Center for Law and Politics present
A Conversation with Jim Sciutto, the London-based senior foreign correspondent of ABC News and author of “Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies in the Muslim World”
Prof. Nathaniel Persily of the Law School will introduce Sciutto and moderate the Q&A.
Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2009
7-9 pm
Columbia Journalism School - Lecture Hall
116th St & Broadway (#1 train to 116th St)
No RSVP required. This is an open, public event - no charge.
Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation about America and the world, on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Here’s what Booklist had to say about Sciutto’s book: “Although he paints a sobering picture, Sciutto offers hope for Americans seeking amicable relationships with Muslims …. Much-needed light on dark geopolitical realities.”
And Anthony Shadid, Washington Post’s award-winning Middle East correspondent: “For far too long, U.S. policymakers have relied on a faulty, dangerous premise: We only have to convince the rest of the world of our righteousness to dispel the growing, anti-American tide that has swept across the Arab and Muslim worlds since 2001. In his insightful, captivating and informative book, Jim Sciutto, a veteran reporter in the Middle East, shows how misguided that notion is. To much of the rest of the world, particularly the Middle East, American foreign policy appears singularly imperial. In fact, in less than a decade, two distinct versions of reality have emerged — one there, one here — and in the way America is perceived, they rarely intersect. We can’t wish away what has happened to our image. We have to understand the phenomenon. We have to recognize it. And Sciutto’s book is essential reading in doing so.”
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