BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:767@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150430T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150430T173000 DTSTAMP:20150323T185943Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/thirteen-days-in-september-carter- begin-and-sadat-at-camp-david/ SUMMARY:Thirteen Days in September: Carter\, Begin\, and Sadat at Camp Davi d DESCRIPTION:TEXAS\nTHIRTEEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER: CARTER\, BEGIN\, AND SADAT A T CAMP DAVID\n\nThu\, April 30\, 2015 • 5:30 PM • Bass Lecture Hall\, LBJ 2.104\nPresented by the Department of Middle East Studies at UT Austin \n\nA discussion with Lawrence Wright\n\nLawrence Wright is an author\, sc reenwriter\, playwright\, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine .\n\n\n\nWright is the author of one novel\, God’s Favorite (Simon &am p\; Schuster\, 2000) and eight nonfiction books\, including City Children \, Country Summer (Scribner’s\, 1979)\, In the New World: Growing Up w ith America\, 1960-1984 (Knopf\, 1988)\, Saints &\; Sinners (Knopf\, 1993)\, Remembering Satan (Knopf\, 1994)\, and Twins\; Genes\, Environ ment\, and the Mystery of Identity(Weidenfeld &\; Nicholson\, 1997). T he Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf\, 2006)\, was publ ished to immediate and widespread acclaim\, spending eight weeks on The N ew York Times bestseller list and being translated into twenty-five langu ages. It won the Lionel Gelber Award for Nonfiction\, the Los Angeles Time s Award for History\, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize\, the New York Publi c Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism\, and th e Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Time Magazine pronounced it one of the 100 best nonfiction books ever written. Going Clear: Scientology\ , Hollywood\, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf\, 2013)\, also a New York T imes bestseller\, was nominated for the National Book Award and won the In vestigative Reporters and Editors Award. His most recent book\, Thirteen Days in September: Carter\, Begin\, and Sadat at Camp David\, was publishe d in the fall of 2014\, and was named by Publisher's Weekly as one of the top ten books of the year.\n\nIn 2006\, Wright premiered his one-man play\ , “My Trip to Al-Qaeda\,” at The New Yorker Festival\, and then enjoye d a sold-out six-week run at the Culture Project in Soho. It was made into a documentary film\, directed by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney\, which appeared on HBO in the fall of 2010. Wright also wrote and performed anot her one-man show\, “The Human Scale\,” concerning the standoff between Israel and Hamas over the abduction of an Israeli soldier\, Gilad Shalit. The Public Theater produced the play\, which ran for a month off-Broadway in 2010 before moving to the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv. In the spring of 2013\, the Berkeley Repertory Theater produced Wright’s play about Oria na Fallaci\, “Fallaci\,” directed by Oskar Eustis. A year later\, the Arena Stage in Washington\, D.C.\, premiered Wright’s acclaimed play “ Camp David\,” about the Carter-Begin-Sadat summit.\n\nSponsored by: ICOM ME and Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law\n\n \; \n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/03/lawrence-wright.jpg CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Bass Lecture Hall\, LBJ Building 2.104\, 2300 Red River St\, Austi n\, TX\, United States GEO:30.2842379;-97.72767069999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2300 Red River St\, Austin\ , TX\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bass Lecture Hall\, LBJ Bu ilding 2.104:geo:30.2842379,-97.72767069999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR