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Lecture

Developing Empathy through Reading Fiction

07
Jan 2019
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Monday 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM

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Born in Cairo, writer, novelist and playwright Leila Aboulela was raised in Khartoum where she enrolled in the Khartoum American School. The daughter of Sudan’s first-ever female demographer, she graduated from the University of Khartoum with a degree in economics and went on to earn a master’s degree in statistics from the London Institute of Economics. She lived for several years in Scotland where she wrote most of her award-winning works including the Caine Prize for African Writing for her novel The Museum.

From the idea of a house that opens its door to the cultures and sciences of the peoples, to the house whose owner used to write and gather what happens in the place and outside it … the house of Abdullah Al Zayed was the first to found journalism in Bahrain with a modern press and library. He was also the first to open a cinema. He was the only editor who worked passionately to publish the weekly Bahrain Newspaper, and even encouraged aspirants to write about literature and culture.

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