Goethe-Institut 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100 Los Angeles CA 90036 Free validated parking after 6 pm under the complex (enter from Wilshire Blvd just east of Curson) Goethe-Institut info line, 323.525.3388 Levantine Center info, 323.413.2001.

On Thursday, July 19, the Goethe-Institut and Levantine Cultural Center present an evening of readings with Tunisian novelist Hassouna Mosbahi. Selections from Mosbahi’s most recent novels, The Orphan of Time and A Tunisian Tale (available in English from the American University of Cairo Press) will be read by Mosbahi along with actors Jihad Abdo and Patrick Faucette reading from his work in Arabic and English. A public discussion will ensue, moderated by Fareed Majari, director of the Goethe-Institut in Los Angeles following his posting in Beirut, Lebanon. The program is free to the public, and is cosponsored by the Villa Aurora, where Hassouna Mosbahi is a Feuchtwanger Fellow until the end of the year. For further information, please visit our website.

http://www.levantinecenter.org/event/narrating-arab-spring-tunisian-author-hassouna-mosbahi