Thanassis Cambanis ’96, a former Daily Tar Heel editor and a journalist with expertise in Middle Eastern and U.S. foreign policy, will present “Arab Uprisings Aren’t Over,” examining the condition of Arab states after the wave of uprisings since 2010. The lecture will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct., 21, 2013, at the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The author of A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (Free Press, 2011), Cambanis has been the co-bureau chief for the Middle East for The Boston Globe, where he now writes “The Internationalist” column. He is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a regular contributor to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest and The Huffington Post. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Cambanis is currently working on his second book about the effort to build a new political order in Egypt after the Jan. 25, 2011, uprising drove Hosni Mubarak from power. One year prior to the publication of his first book, Cambanis served as a professor of journalism at Princeton University, where he received his master’s in public affairs.
He is a 1996 UNC graduate, earning Phi Beta Kappa honors with a BA in history and creative writing.
His lecture, “Arab Uprisings Aren’t Over,” is presented by the Curriculum in Global Studies in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences.
The FedEx Global Education Center is located at 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill. Parking may be available in the garage below the building beginning at 5 p.m.
