THE RIFKIND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS PRESENTS

The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Thursday, February 29, 5 – 6:30pm
 

The Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316
The City College of New York

Join us on February 29 at 5pm for a conversation with Adam Shatz on his latest book, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. Adam Shatz will discuss his book with Youssef Ben Ismail.

Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a visiting professor at Bard College. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023) and The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (FSG, 2024). Educated at Columbia University, he has written about politics and culture for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. In 2021 he was awarded a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et de lettres by the French government in recognition of his writings on French culture.

Youssef Ben Ismail is a lecturer of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and a Fellow at the Society of Fellows, SOF/Heyman at Columbia University.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC