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One Book, One College
BMCC Spring 2008 Uptown Pilot

First Book Pilot: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

Status: Event set for Inwood Campus
Progress: Students excited, reflecting and many have completed the book.
Faculty excited and engaging.
Insights: Currently generating discipline specific reflections


Faculty:
Sociology: Prof. Wendy Washington
English: Prof. Robert Moore
Psychology: Prof. Miriam Caceres-Dalmau
and
Prof. Charles Alexander Zorn

Administrators
Dean Michael Gillespie
Peter Roberts
Franka Warner-Johnson


Foundational Links:

One Book at loc.gov

American Library Assoc. One Book Discussion

One Book org at oboc.org

One Book info pdf from Random House


Institutional and Community Examples of One Book programs:

http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/onebook.html/

http://www.morainevalley.edu/malcolmx/

http://www.chaffey.edu/collegebook/index.shtml

http://www.foothill.edu/onebook/

http://www.cccnj.net/library/oboc.cfm

Additional links related to The Kite Runner, both book and film:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan#History

http://library.csusm.edu/course_guides/workshops/campus.read.asp

http://themoderatevoice.com/places/asia/middle-east/lebanon/18974/west-arab-divide-london-book-festival-attempts-a-bridge/

http://newfoundlandnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/kite-runner-thumbs-up-thousand-times.html

http://www.theinterim.com/2008/feb/20kiterunner.html

Useful Video and audio:

http://www.cccnj.net/library/obochttp://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/01/podcast_khaled_hosseini_reads.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAYd117Dj2Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJBi9qutmq8

Additional related links:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/05/6192/

http://www.literalmayhem.com/2007/09/29/the-kite-runner-a-colossally-dishonest-story-but-well-written/

http://aqsher.blogspot.com/2007/12/kite-runner.html

http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2005/08/kite-runner.html

http://www.slate.com/id/2123280/

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/mona_eltahawy/2007/12/afghanis_must_face_truth_about.html

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/01/abc-glaad-to.html

http://afghanprofile.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=15&Itemid=26

http://booklit.com/blog/2007/05/31/khaled-hosseini-the-kite-runner/

http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories08/january/0118083.htm

http://www.bloodmother.com/2007/10/headlines-anthropologists-and-kite.html

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2005/12/guest-review-kite-runner.html

http://www.religionwriter.com/islam-in-america/islam/scholar-in-islamic-feminism-both-liberals-and-conservatives-play-essential-roles/

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/152199/sacrifice_in_hosseinis_the_kite_runner.html

Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul at Amazon

Which is Better?-vote-Kite or Sun? at Amazon

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