SACC is proud to Co-Sponsor this project, thanks for the very generous donation from Dr. Yazan Khatib.
We encourage other SACC members to donate for this project.
wael khoury

Dear Wael,

TARI was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1998 As a non-profit educational organization. TARI’s Board members are: NaseerAruri (president),Hani Faris,Munir Akash, Mujid Kazimi, Saree Makdesi and BisharaDoumani.

The current project involves arranging a trip for 15American writers to visit refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon and write their reflections on life and society in the camps. Six writers have already traveled to Syria and Lebanon, wrote their reflections, and participated in two seminars on the trip, one at Suffolk University and another at Bennington College

The next trip, with six prominent American writers, will take place in the fall of 2009

The second component of the project consists of publishing an anthology on the literature of refugee society, which I will edit and co-publish with Syracuse University Press. This long overdue Anthology by prominent American and Arab writers aims to bring to light the collective creativity experience of the Palestinian refugees before, during and after the 1948 Nakba.

Both projects, as you know, require funding and I am hoping that you and other members of SACC will be able to help TARI launch these important projects.

Thanks and all the Best,

Munir Akash,

TARI, Memberof the Board

Visiting professor of Humanities and Modern

languages

Director of the Arabic Program,

Suffolk University, Boston

May 2009