# Writers or Missionaries? Reporting the Middle East #### calendar\_today Date and Time **May 9, 2014** 05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA** **The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present the 2014 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer** ![Adam Shatz](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/Adam%2520Shatz%2520photo%2520for%2520web_0.jpg?itok=HtPCFgj7) **Adam Shatz** Journalist [Watch Adam Shatz's lecture](/news/video-writers-or-missionaries-reporting-middle-east) Read [Adam Shatz's "Writers or Missionaries?" (The Nation, July 15, 2014)](http://www.thenation.com/article/writers-or-missionaries/), an adaptation of his lecture for CMES. Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the *London Review of Books*, and a visiting professor at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. He has reported from Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Algeria. In addition to the *London Review of Books*, his work has appeared in *The New York Review of Books*, *The Nation*, and *The New York Times*. He is the editor of the anthology *Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing on Zionism and Israel*. His most recent report from the Middle East is a long investigative essay on the assassination of the actor and activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, which can be read here: . To read more about Hilda B. Silverman, click [here](/event-series/silverman). See also:- [ Silverman Lecture Series ](/eventseries/silverman) - [ Government ](/research-field/government) - [ History ](/research-field/history) - [ 2013-14 ](/academic-year/2013-14) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/node/486021/event-feed.ics) Copy link link