Who are the revolutionaries in today's Middle East?

The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies cordially invites you to a lecture entitled "Who are the revolutionaries in today's Middle East?" by Christopher Hitchens, author, literary critic and journalist.

Christopher Hitchens - Biography

Christopher Hitchens, author, literary critic and journalist, has published numerous books, essay collections and editions, written and narrated several documentary films, and as a foreign correspondent and travel writer has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents, including Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Since 1992 Mr. Hitchens has been a columnist and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and at different times has been editor, columnist, correspondent or contributor for The Spectator, The New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review. Since 1998 he has been Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, and was Visiting Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University in 2005.

Christopher Hitchens - Publications

His numerous books, essay collections and editions include: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2009); The Portable Atheist: Essential Writings for the Unbeliever (2007); A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (2003); The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001); No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999); The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish (1990); The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa In Theory and Practice (1996); Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question (with Edward Said; 1986). He has also written and narrated numerous documentary films and was described by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media."