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The Harvard College Writing Program is the oldest in the United States. Since 1872, when the program was founded, a course in expository writing has been the one academic experience required of every Harvard student. We welcome you to "Expos," a Harvard tradition.

Thomas R. Jehn, Sosland Director
Main office phone: (617) 495-2566 
Program e-mail: expos@fas.harvard.edu

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KENNEDY SCHOOL SHORENSTEIN FELLOW AND FORMER NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER NAZILA FATHI DISCUSSES COVERING IRAN FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series present: “Writing the First Rough Draft of History: A Decade of Reporting from Inside Iran”

Thursday, February 9

7:30–8:30 pm

Science Center Hall A

Free and open to the public

Nazila Fathi is a journalist, translator and commentator on Iran. She reported out of Iran for nearly two decades until 2009 when she was forced to leave the country because of government threats against her. She has written for the New York TimesTime magazine,  Agence FrancePresse, the New York Review of BooksForeign PolicyNieman Reports, and the online publication, openDemocracy. She has been a guest speaker on CNN, BBC, CBC, and NPR. A Nieman Fellow in 2010–11, she is currently a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Featured Harvard Writing Project Guides for General Education Courses

The Harvard Writing Project currently publishes more than 25 guides to writing in courses and concentrations at Harvard College, including the College's General Education Program.  For the 2011-12 academic year, the HWP is pleased to announce the publication of writing guides for Professor David F. Elmer's course "Ancient Fictions: The Ancient Novel in Context," Professor Jay Harris' "'If There is No God, All is Permitted:' Theism and Moral Reasoning," and two guides for Professor Peter Manuelian's course "Pyramid Schemes." Downloadable PDF versions of these and other writing guides will be available shortly as PDF files in the resources for students section of the website. 

   
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