The Big Read at the BA
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Alexandria—
The BA, in cooperation with the American Center in Alexandria, are co-organizing a lecture on ‘The Big Read’ by Michael Dana Gioia, Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC, USA, on Monday, 4 February 2008.
The Big Read is an initiative of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The Big Read answers a big need, as revealed in the landmark report: Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading on America. This 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts found that not only is literary reading in America declining rapidly among all groups, but that the rate of decline has accelerated, specially among the young.
The Big Read aims to address this crisis. It provides citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities. For more information,
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The lecture will be given in English with Arabic Translation and will start at 11.30 hrs. at the BA Conference Center, Lectures Hall.