A Conversation with Hisham Matar
Thursday, March 26, 2026
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. EDT
RSVP Required
Location:
Healy Hall Riggs Library Map
Hisham Matar’s remarkable body of work spans the lost world of pre-Qaddafi regime-Libya, the lives of forced expatriates in London and New York, and the shining civic ideal of quattrocento Siena, all informed by a tragic humanism extraordinary in its depth and subtlety of feeling. In this Faith and Culture Series conversation hosted by the Office of the President, Matar and Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie will discuss Matar’s novel My Friends (2024) and his memoirs The Return (2016) and A Month in Siena (2019)—and the unlikely ways literature, art, travel, political resistance, and personal commitment come together in his work. A reception and book signing will follow.
The Office of the President, with support from the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, has sponsored the Faith and Culture Lecture Series since 2008. These public conversations invite prominent contemporary writers and creators to discuss their work in the context of faith, culture, and society.
This event, part of the Faith and Culture Series, is hosted by the Georgetown University Office of the President in partnership with Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
