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SUMMARY:Runaway To Nowhere: A discussion with novelist Qasham Ali Balata
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 	Run Away to Nowhere is the story of Nareen 
 and Karwan, who have fallen in love with each 
 other in a very strict society. As students 
 at the local university, their story crosses 
 the path of the first Gulf War. Events transpire 
 and Nareen is separated from her family; 
 she finds herself wandering the snowy mountains 
 of Kurdistan, accompanied by her six-year-old 
 brother.\n
 	When she finally arrives at the 
 refugee camp, she meets and befriends a female 
 American journalist who will do her best 
 to get her information about her lover, also 
 lost in the ordeal of the massive evacuation 
 of Kurds from their towns in northern Iraq.\n
 	It is a love story in a land stripped of its 
 very humanity. It is a story about a culture 
 that is by and large unknown to the rest of 
 the world. This is your gateway to the Muslim 
 world, to Kurdistan, to Iraq, and to the heart 
 of where civilization and humanity first met.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:TBD
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