Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.
15th February 2023.
17.00.
A6-004.
With Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) and Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa).
This is event is organised by Global Crossroads, as part of the “Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime” event.
The NYU Center for Global Asia, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation – and in collaboration with the NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, is hosting a workshop at NYU Abu Dhabi on Africa-Asia interactions on January 21 and 22, 2023.
For details and registration information, click here.
On November 10th, Erica Wu attended the 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. To read her comprehensive report on the event, click here.
Arts Collaboration
Shahid Nadeem, playwright; collaboration with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, NYUAD
Internationally renowned Pakistani playwright and director of Ajoka—Pakistan’s premier theatre company— Mr Shahid Nadeem, will be a writer in residence this week here. He and Professor Afzanl-Khan are collaborating on a script called “Lawrence in Lahore: the Lost Years,” based on stories of T. E. Lawrence’s rumoured exploits in South Asia in the late 1920s and 30s.
They will be presenting our work in progress, including a dramatic reading of the (draft) scenes written so far (utilizing student actors).