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| January 28, 2016 |
Time:
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: 1203 Haley Center
FUNDAMENTALISM, TERRORISM, JIHADISM:
CULTURAL VIRUS OR SOCIAL CANCER?
by
JULIEN SUAUDEAU
THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 2016, 3:30 PM, 1203 HALEY CENTER
Julien Suaudeau is an American-French author, filmmaker and high-school teacher. After receiving an MA from the Paris Institute of Political Science, he started his career as a consultant on current affairs,
among others at the French Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. The documentary films he directed aired in France, Germany, Switzerland and Canada.
The lecture is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures. For more information, please contact Dr. Samia I. Spencer <spencsi@auburn.edu>
In 2014, Suaudeau released his debut novel, Dawa, an Arabic word meaning “invitation.” In modern French street slang, it means chaos, mayhem. Dawa tells the story of a mutiple Islamic terrorist
plot in Paris, several months prior to the Charlie Hebdo and the November 13 attacks. In 2015, it was followed by Le Français (The Frenchman), the story of a French country boy who turns into an ISIS executioner in Syria. It has been unanimously
praised, and confirmed Suaudeau’s standing as one of the most promising voices in contemporary French literature. Currently, Suaudeau is a French teacher in the Haddonfield, NJ, school district.
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