The new cabinet of George Mason’s Pakistani Student Association (PSA) hosted their first event on June 5th, 2011. PSA started off their year with an excellent and inspirational guest speaker, and author, Ethan Casey.
Ethan Casey is a humanitarian who has helped Pakistan for the last fifteen years. He has published two books (Alive and Well in Pakistan, and Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip) and regularly speaks at universities, civic groups, religious congregations and organizations.
Besides his published books, during the 2003-04 academic year, Casey taught at the newly-founded School of Media and Communication at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore. He has alsogiven lectures at other institutions including Yale, Harvard, the University of Texas, and the Royal Geographical Society.
Throughout the 2000s, Casey wrote columns for the English-language Pakistani newspapers The News and the Daily Times. By 2006, Casey had moved to Seattle, where he launched the podcast series PakCast in collaboration with Pakistan-born software entrepreneur Nasir Aziz.
At the Ethan Casey: Meet and Greet, hosted by the GMU PSA on June 5th, Ethan told his personal experience of how and, more importantly, why he has such a strong connection and bond with Pakistan. Ethan also emphasized how his work in Detroit and Southeast and South Asia helped him understand that fact that honest narration and documentation are among the highest and most useful accomplishments for which a writer can aspire, as well as the most difficult. He states that all his work and effort goes towards ‘[strengthening] the human connections and conversations between Americans and Pakistanis.’
By: Abdulwahid Rehmatullah |
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