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The Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) Program welcome you to the latest in our continuing series of lectures regarding the culture, politics, religion, and society of the Middle East and North Africa. For this event, Brian Edwards, Crown Professor in Middle East Studies, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and Director of the MENA Program, will discuss his newest book, After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East. This book examines the circulation of American culture in the digital age, with particular attention to three cities where Dr. Edwards has done extensive research—Casablanca, Cairo, and Tehran.

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event through Bookends & Beginnings.