Times in the book possible aspire to and try to provide. After this, well gladly take your questions and look for your insights. Well have a Panel Panel Discussion about ten or 15 minutes after. Just as a housekeeping note, please also phoned off. There will will be a book signing with the authors after at area one and no personal recordings of the session, please. Now id like to introduce the panel. Christopher phillips is a senior lecturer in the International Relations of the middle east and paid a mere university in london. He lived for several years in syria and often returns to the middle east for research. He is an associate fellow at Chatham House middle east and north africa program. His friend for many publications and has appeared on the bbc, and cnn. Hes just published a second book, the battle for syria, International Rivalry in the new middle east which will be today. Alla malek is a civil right lawyer born in baltimore. Shes her childs attorney in the department of justi
My name is nancy widen, i am the owner of the strand along with my dad, fred bass, who usually can be found in the buying desk on the main floor. Ninety years ago my grandfather, benjamin bass, founded the strand on fourth avenue, right around the corner. It was an area that was known as book row. It ran from about the 1880s to about is about the 1970s, and at its height there were 48 bookstores. Today were till run by my family. Were the sole survivor of decades of big box stores, amazon, ebooks, and we hold our 18 miles of books of new, rare and old. And tonight i am delighted that were going to hear a truly inspiring story from the halls of the psychiatric ward that was born and bred right here in new york city. When a mentally ill inmate is too sick to handle, they are sent to Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward. Dr. Elizabeth ford wrote about her experiences in this new memoir, sometimes Amazing Things happen. This is a place where problem our Society Faces with the incarcer
My name is nancy widen, i am the owner of the strand along with my dad, fred bass, who usually can be found in the buying desk on the main floor. Ninety years ago my grandfather, benjamin bass, founded the strand on fourth avenue, right around the corner. It was an area that was known as book row. It ran from about the 1880s to about is about the 1970s, and at its height there were 48 bookstores. Today were till run by my family. Were the sole survivor of decades of big box stores, amazon, ebooks, and we hold our 18 miles of books of new, rare and old. And tonight i am delighted that were going to hear a truly inspiring story from the halls of the psychiatric ward that was born and bred right here in new york city. When a mentally ill inmate is too sick to handle, they are sent to Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward. Dr. Elizabeth ford wrote about her experiences in this new memoir, sometimes Amazing Things happen. This is a place where problem our Society Faces with the incarcer
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori