New IIE Book Discussion Series Announced

Dear Colleague,

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to invite you to

join us for the next installment of our book discussion series held in

conjunction with the United Nations Association of New York. We are honored

to host an evening of discussion with Peter Godwin.

In mid 2008, after nearly three decades of increasingly tyrannical rule of

Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, lost an election. But instead of conceding power,

he launched a brutal campaign of terror against his own citizens. Peter

Godwin, was one of the few outside observers to bear witness to the

terrifying period that Zimbabweans call, simply, The Fear.

At great personal risk, Godwin returns secretly to the country that was once

his home. He visits the torture bases, the burning villages, the death

squads, the opposition leaders in hiding, the last white farmers, the

churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line to stop the

carnage. Threaded through with personal history, The Fear is the brave and

astonishing record of a dictatorship gone mad. Accompanied by his sister

Georgina, Godwin journeys through the ravaged, once-familiar landscape. They

visit the grave of their sister, killed during the civil war. As they pour

red "lucky bean" seeds from the coral tree in their old garden into the

runnels of the letters on her gravestone, they call their mother, now living

in exile in faraway London. 'Where would you like to be buried when you

die?' he asks her. 'At home,' she says. 'In Africa. Next to your father.'

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BOOK READING

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

By Peter Godwin

Thursday, February 9*

Institute of International Education (IIE) 809 United Nations Plaza (First Ave between 45th and 46th Streets) 12th

Floor New York City

6:00 p.m. - Reception 6:30 p.m. - Book Reading by Peter Godwin 7:15 p.m. - Book Discussion

*RSVP is required, as seating is limited. If you wish to attend, please send

an email with your contact information to membership@iie.org