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Ever wanted to
meet a famous
writer? The
Asian American
Writers'
Workshop
presents LYCEUM:
ICE CREAM &
IDEAS—it’s a
special workshop
series where the
lesson begins
with ice cream
and ends with
writing your own
stories.
Featuring:
Moustafa
Bayoumi and
Terrence Cheng
What does it
mean when the
people that the
TV says are the
enemy happen to
look like you or
your parents?
After September
11th and the
rise of China,
many Americans
imagine Asian
Americans as the
bad guy. Maybe
the bad guy
looks like
Park51, which
was never
intended to be
located at
Ground Zero or
be a mosque.
Maybe the bad
guy looks like
the Chinese
businessman
threatening U.S.
businesses. Come
meet writers and
professors
Moustafa Bayoumi,
whose book How
Does It Feel To
Be a Problem?:
Being Young and
Arab in America
caused a
national
anti-Muslim
controversy, and
Terrence Cheng,
whose first
novel tells the
fictional story
of the famous
and anonymous
protester who
stood in the way
of Chinese tanks
at the 1989
Tiananmen Square
Protests.
Moustafa
Bayoumi is
the author
of How Does It
Feel To Be a
Problem?: Being
Young and Arab
in
America (Penguin),
which won an
American Book
Award and the
Arab American
Book Award for
Non-Fiction.
Terrence
Cheng's first
novel, Sons of
Heaven(William
Morrow, 2002),
was chosen as a
Barnes & Noble
Discover Great
New Writers pick
as well as a
Borders Original
Voices
selection. He is
currently
Associate
Professor and
Chair of the
Department of
English at
Lehman
College-CUNY.
Cosponsors
Asian American /
Asian Research
Institute - CUNY
Asian American
Writers'
Workshop
Chinatown Ice
Cream Factory
Teachers and
Writers
Collective
