Edward Said Lecture Series: Miss Sarajevo: Islam and Muslims in Bosnia Bill Carter Friday October 8 • The Multicultural center • 2:00-3:30 pm

Portland State University
Sociology of Islam Presents
Edward Said Lecture Series

Miss Sarajevo:
Islam and Muslims in bosnia
Bill Carter
Award Winning Director and Author

Friday october 8 •  The Multicultural center
The Smith Memorial Student Union • 2:00-3:30 pm

Bill Carter is an American director of the award-winning documentary film “Miss Sarajevo”, which includes personal accounts from his experiences delivering aid to the besieged city of Sarajevo in 1993.  In completely extraordinary circumstances, in the summer of 1993, Mr. Carter established a “live” link between Sarajevo and European concerts of the pop-rock band U2.  For Sarajevans, this was an opportunity to speak to millions of young people about life under siege, and the destruction of Sarajevo, and helped to turn European attention towards the conflict.  He also established a contact with MTV, through which Sarajevans had an opportunity to address an audience of 100 million people through an un-edited two-hour “window”.  He's since held more than 50 lectures at universities such as Harvard, New York University, Boston College - showing his film “Miss Sarajevo” and talking about the war in Bosnia.  In 2009 he was given honorary citizenship to Sarajevo - an honor normally bestowed to heads of state (he is the second 'journalist' to receive the honor, after Christiane Amanpour).
For more information: http://billcarter.cc/

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co-sponsored by international studies - The portland center for public humanities - sociology - religious studies
history - Judaic studies - political science - center for turkish studies