From Pashas to Pariahs: The Arrogant Years of Egypt's Jewry
A lecture by Lucette Lagnado, Author, Reporter
Sunday, May 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Center
UCLA
Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado is a senior special writer and investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she has received numerous prizes for her work, She and her family left Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, an experience that helped shape and inform her recent memoirs, The Arrogant Years and The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, published by Ecco/HarperCollins. She is also the coauthor of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Lagnado resides with her husband, journalist Douglas Feiden, in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, New York.
Cost: While the event is free and open to the public, pre-registration is required. E mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310) 267-5327 to register.
Tel: (310) 267-5327
cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies, The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
