Muslim
Journeys Book Discussion Group
This fall, Paula Adams, Associate Professor of Library Science, will host a book
discussion group in conjunction with the cultural event program, Muslim
Journeys, hosted by Assistant Professor of Library Science, LuMarie Guth.
Muslim Journeys is a grant awarded by the NEH & ALA to help public
audiences in the United States to become more familiar with the people, places,
history, faith and cultures of Muslims around the world and within the U.S. The
grant includes the award of 25 books with 3 DVDs. One of the titles, House of
Stone by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Anthony Shadid, will be the feature
reading.
To join, please contact
Paula Adams, CSU Main Library, Reference
Suite 1st floor(706.507.8685 or adams_paula@columbusstate.edu) no later than
Friday, September 13th to pick up a copy of the book. 15 copies
will be given away with 7 copies available in the library for check out.
Muslim
Journeys Book Discussion Group
Group
meetings will take place at the CSU Libraries on main campus in the Reference
Suite. Dates and times are listed below:
September 25th @ 5:30pm
October 9th @ 5:30pm
October 23rd @ 5:30pm
November 6th @ 5:30pm
November 20th @ 5:30pm
House of Stone : A
Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2012)
“In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon
to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family’s
ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather’s
once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later,
Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in
its wake.
So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist’s wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house’s renewal alongside the history of his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East.
So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist’s wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house’s renewal alongside the history of his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East.
Pulitzer-Prize winner Anthony Shadid died on
February 16, 2012, from an acute asthma attack while running behind camels,
to which he was allergic, while attempting to leave Syria.
