Signing SANTA CLAUS IN BAGHDAD at Middle East Studies Association conference, Boston, November 22, 2009
Talks in the West Bank, Palestine, early November 2009: Birzeit University, Arab American University of Jenin, various groups including Palestinian chapter of IBBY, Palestinian writers and teachers, children at a refugee camp.
Book-signing at Indy Author Fair, Indianapolis-Marion County Public (Central) Library, September 26, 12-2:00 p.m.
Workshop for teachers on "Santa Claus in Baghdad," book and film, sponsored by Middle East Studies Center, University of Chicago, on Septembe 25, 2009
International conference on children's literature, Beirut, presentation on children's and YA literature about the Arab world, June 14, 2009
Workshop for teachers on "Santa Claus in Baghdad" at Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, on May 16, 2009
Film event, March 4, 2009: "Santa Claus in Baghdad" and "Just Your Average Arab," with the filmmaker Raouf Zaki; Indiana Memorial Union (Whittenberger Auditorium), Indiana University, Bloomington.
Radio interview, "Interactons," WFHB in Bloomington, IN, March 3, 2009
Showing "Santa Claus in Baghdad" film and author interview, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, December 21, 2008
Signing SANTA CLAUS IN BAGHDAD, Holiday Author Fair, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, December 6, 2008
Cineforum, with filmmaker, at screening of "Santa Claus in Baghdad," and book signing at Middle East Studies Association annual conference, Washington DC, November 22-24, 2008
Discussion of SANTA CLAUS IN BAGHDAD and other fiction about the Arab world, at a workshop on teaching about the Middle East, Georgetown University, Washington DC, June 24, 2008