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EVENT- Reading from "Danser sur les ruines, une jeunesse tchetchene," June 24

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EVENT- Reading from "Danser sur les ruines, une jeunesse tchetchene," June 24

Posted by: Almut Rochowanski <almut@chechnyaadvocacy.org>

June 24, 2007:

Reading from "Danser sur les ruines, une jeunesse tchetchene" (Dancing
on ruins. A Chechen youth) by Chechen author Milana Terloeva

The Tank @ C:U
279 Church Street
New York
6:30pm
Please join us for a reading from "Danser sur les ruines, une jeunesse
tchetchene" (Dancing on ruins. A Chechen youth), by 27 year-old
journalist and author Milana Terloeva from Chechnya. Since the book
has only been published in France to date, the reading will be from
excerpts translated into English.

Milana was 14 when war broke out in her native Chechnya. During the
following years she experienced bombings, flight and displacement, the
destruction of her home town and the deaths of people around her.
Milana was studying French in Chechnya's bombed-out capital Grozny
when the second war started in 1999 and she became a refugee. Unlike
most of her generation, Milana was fortunate: in 2003, she was given
the chance to go to Paris and embark on a graduate education in
journalism at the elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, by a
new grass-roots initiative of French students, Etudes Sans Frontieres
(Studies Without Borders), who wanted to help their peers in Chechnya.
After writing for French and Italian newspapers, Milana was approached
to write her book, which was published in 2006, the same year she
graduated second in her class. Milana has since returned to Chechnya,
where she is working to establish a European cultural center and
writing her next book. Milana is visiting New York with three of her
colleagues from Etudes Sans Frontieres.

The excerpts of the book will be read by New York-based journalist
Marisa Robertson-Textor, who spent seven years living and working in
Russia. Marisa holds a graduate degree in International Affairs from
Columbia University and has previously worked with human rights
organizations in Russia and written about Chechnya.

Since seating is limited, please RSVP to can@chechnyaadvocacy.org.
There will be a suggested contribution of $5 to cover expenses of the venue.

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