A diary of a slave written in arabic. Up next, a collection of documents bearing the name of omar ibn said. Ms. Deeb i am mary jane deeb, chief of the african middle east division here at the library of congress. Im here to tell you about this fantastic acquisition the library has made in 2017. It is only now available to the public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has b
Public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has been well known. For the last almost 200 years, its existence has not been known. It is not a mystery. It has been passed on from hand to hand. It has been at certain times owned by people and disappeared from everyones of you and then it reappears. The latest owner was an africanamerican collector of africana and historic docu
Much. Now i know its raining outside, but when i come to the podium, i really enjoy a great round of applause. Lets try it [applause] while you all are here in the room there are a number of people watching on cspan. We want them to get the full experience of being here in miami, even in the rain we are very cheery about books but thank you for that kind introduction. Youve read it exactly the way i wrote it. Very well done. But im thrilled to be here to introduce todays author. Im going to come to the gentleman in my left in a moment but before i get there im going to start with Robert Samuels and ask him to come to the dais. He is a National Political Enterprise Reporter for the Washington Post, focusing on the intersection of politics, policy and people. He joins inthe post in 2011 after spending nearly 5 years working at the miami herald. Working at the miami herald. Now you get it. He is the coauthor of the book hihis name is george floyd one mans life and the struggle for Racial
We think of tragedies that have happened recently, attacks, and life of many citizens, we pray you would protect a life i pray that those of us who know you would live godly lives. I pray we would do that for your glory. We pray now that you would bless this discussion tonight that we might learn something that would make us more effective citizens. We ask this in christs name, amen. Before i introduce this evenings panelist, i want to take a few minutes and set the context and purpose for tonights discussion its my opinion that believers or evangelicals should engage in political activity on the basis of their faith commitments. I hold this opinion for a couple reasons opinion scripture assumes that a follower of christ will seek opportunities for influence. Its just one example, god instructs his people who are in exile to seek the peace or welfare of the city where ive caused you to be carried away as captives. And pray unto the lord for it. The peace or welfare there of shall you h
We think of tragedies that have happened recently, attacks, and life of many citizens, we pray you would protect a life i pray that those of us who know you would live godly lives. I pray we would do that for your glory. We pray now that you would bless this discussion tonight that we might learn something that would make us more effective citizens. We ask this in christs name, amen. Before i introduce this evenings panelist, i want to take a few minutes and set the context and purpose for tonights discussion its my opinion that believers or evangelicals should engage in political activity on the basis of their faith commitments. I hold this opinion for a couple reasons opinion scripture assumes that a follower of christ will seek opportunities for influence. Its just one example, god instructs his people who are in exile to seek the peace or welfare of the city where ive caused you to be carried away as captives. And pray unto the lord for it. The peace or welfare there of shall you h