Dana Gioia, poet and former boss of the National Endowment for the Arts, many years ago wrote a book titled “Does Poetry Matter?” The inside back page essay in yesterday’s NYTimes Book Review by Robyn Cresswell (poetry editor of The Paris Review) had this to say about “Egypt: The Cultural…
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The public is invited to a panel discussion about “Egypt’s Future” on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in the O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, on the South Campus of UMass Lowell. A reception with refreshments starts at 5 p.m, with the program follwing at 5.30 p.m. Presenters will include…
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UMass Lowell Provost Ahmed Abdelal checking news from Egypt. (Web photo courtesy of CBSBoston.com and WBZ Radio) UMass Lowell Provost Ahmed Abdelal has been following the news from Egypt closely. He was born in Egypt and has relatives and colleagues in Cairo. UMass Lowell will be hosting an exhibition of contemporary…
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Mubarak’s supporters gather near a fallen horse and rider (foreground on the right) as others take on anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Wednesday. (AP)
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In today’s NYTimes, Sen. John Kerry, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote about Egypt and the post-Mubarak scenario. Read his guest column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
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From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, a column about history and the trouble in Egypt by an international relations scholar. I picked this up from realclearpolitics.com
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“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers…
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