Book Signing: IFAW CEO Azzedine Downes in conversation with Jeff Corwin
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| Dates: | Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - Wednesday, July 26, 2023 |
| Hours: | 7:00 pm |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Books & Poetry |
Harvard Book Store and Boston Area Returning Peace Corps Volunteers welcome AZZEDINE T. DOWNES—President and CEO of the International Fund for Animal Welfare—for a discussion of his new book The Couscous Chronicles: Stories of Food, Love, and Donkeys from a Life between Cultures.He will be joined in conversation by Emmy award-winning television host, producer, and author, JEFF CORWIN.
About The Couscous Chronicles:
Now an international leader in the fight for animal welfare, Azzedine began his career as a volunteer teacher and later was appointed to leadership in the U.S. Peace Corps.
An American Muslim with Irish roots, he’s a natural cultural shape-shifter, immersing himself in the cultures of Morocco, Eastern Europe, Northwest Africa, Israel and his native United States.
Along the way he befriends the glue-sniffing shoemakers of Fez, becomes the de facto manager of a traveling break-dance troupe, dodges bullets on his daily commute, and finds himself cursed over a feast of couscous gone very, very wrong.
But his most powerful story recounts Azzedine’s marriage to an elusive girl from Tangiers.
Arranged after only two meetings their love story ultimately spans continents and withstands language barriers, international intrigue, and one very antagonistic State Department bureaucrat.
A labyrinth of tales as complex as its namesake dish, The Couscous Chronicles is for anyone who believes that the only real failure is to remain unchanged and in place, that true love is always a blind leap, and that a good story over a cup of tea holds the power to change one’s destiny.
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