You’re Invited: The Well-Tempered City on Oct. 25

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The Institute Welcomes Author Jonathan Rose 

JONATHAN F. P. ROSE works with cities and not-for-profits to plan and build affordable and mixed-income green housing and cultural, health, and educational centers. Recognized for creating communities that heal both residents and neighborhoods, Rose is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the integration of environmental, social, and economic solutions to urban development issues facing us today.

Join The Dallas Institute, The Trinity Trust, and BC Workshop for an evening with Rose as he discusses his recent book The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

Tuesday, Oct. 25 7:00-8:30 pm; reception at 6:30 pm

Free admission; donations welcome. Copies of The Well-Tempered City will be available for purchase.

Registration requested.

Alia Malek was born in the U.S. of Syrian parents who planned to return to their homeland but instead began an unplanned life in diaspora as immigrants. Alia earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Johns Hopkins and a Juris Doctorate at Georgetown University Law Center. For several years her legal work in civil rights took her to Washington, the West Bank, and Lebanon. In 2006, she received a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University and entered her writing career in earnest. After living and writing anonymously for two years in Damascus, Alia returned to the U.S. for the launch of  Al Jazeera America. She is author of A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Re-told Through Arab American Lives and editor of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustices. Her book The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria is forthcoming next year