Events Calendar – British School at Athens
image: Islam Issa gives his prize-winning address at the Runciman Award Ceremony 2024, © Julian Anderson
BSA / Anglo Hellenic League lecture
Professor Islam Issa (Birmingham City University), “The Alexandrian Dream”
BIO Islam Issa is an award-winning author, broadcaster and curator, named by the BBC as ‘one of the UK’s most significant new thinkers’. He is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University, has written several academic books and curated internationally renowned exhibitions. He writes regularly for BBC History Magazine and has presented and featured in television and radio documentaries on the BBC and Netflix. His book, Alexandria: The City that Changed the World, is a Sunday Times and TLS Book of the Year and the winner of this year’s Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award.
The Runciman Award and this event are kindly sponsored by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation
To attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/islam-issa-the-alexandrian-dream-tickets-1041862648227?aff=oddtdtcreator
When: 9 December @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EET
Where: British School at Athens, Upper House – Athens – 52 Souedias Street