The Columbia University South Asia Institute presents
A Discussion with Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi
Thursday, December 10th
7:00-8:30PM
Location: Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
75% of the population of the greater Middle East (Central/South Asia to North Africa) is under the age of
35. But they are not just in the region. They are living in all the major metropolitan cities in the world.
This generation – hundreds of millions of people -- have already impacted the world. They are the
BoomGen.
Join BoomGen Studios’ founders Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi in a discussion about why
the media & storytelling matter.
BoomGen Studios is a one-of-a-kind media & entertainment company entirely focused on content about
the greater Middle East across multiple platforms, including theatrical motion pictures, television, as well
as online.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Reza Aslan, founder and Chief Creative Officer of BoomGen, is
the author of the New York Times Bestseller, No god but God: The
www.boomgentv.com
Origins,
Evolution, and Future of Islam and How to Win a Cosmic
War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror. His
edited anthology, Words without Borders: Writings from the
Middle East, will be published by Norton in 2010. Dr. Aslan is
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of
California, Riverside and a contributing editor on-line for the Daily
Beast.
Mahyad Tousi, is the CEO & founder of BoomGen Studios and
Executive Director of BGTV. He has worked in over 24 countries as
a producer, director, and cinematographer, in both fiction and
documentary; in traditional narrative story telling, as well as for
fine art projects. His work has won numerous awards and has been
distributed theatrically, on television, as well as in museums
internationally.
Co-sponsored by
the Columbia University Middle East
Institute,
Institute for Religion, Culture,
and Public Life, and
International Media &
Communications Concentration at the
Columbia School of International and
Public Affairs
Find out more at
http://boomgen.tv/