Events & Calendars "De l’Algérie à la France: Parcours d’une femme écrivain"

Zahia Rahmani, global faculty in residence at NYU, will give a lecture on Friday, Dec. 2, in Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115) at 4 p.m. Her lecture, "De l’Algérie à la France: Parcours d’une femme écrivain," will focus on her literary trilogy dedicated to contemporary figures of so-called banished men: "Moze" (Sabine Wespieser Editions, 2003); "Muslim: A Novel" (Sabine Wespieser Editions, 2005); and "France, Story of Childhood" (Sabine Wespieser Editions, 2006). The U.S. edition of "France, Story of Childhood" was published by Yale University Press in 2016. The lecture will be given in French.

The lecture and reception following are free and open to the public. For further information, please contact the Department of French at (413) 542-8251.

This event is co-sponsored by the Amherst College Department of French, the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund at Amherst and the Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World.