UPCOMING FUNDRAISER EVENT
Turkish American Women’s Scholarship Fund
Proudly Presents
Turkey and the Arab Spring
by Joseph Yackley*
Date: Sunday, December 4th 2011
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Place: Naperville Woman’s Club
14 South Washington Street, Naperville, IL 60540-5475
For directions and mapplease click here
Free parking behind the building and on W. Van Burren Avenue, opposite side of the street
Suggested donation: $25 adults and $15 students
Appetizers, soft drinks and wine will be served
RSVP by December 1, 2011 to TAWSF at info@tawsf.org
Turkish American Women’s Scholarship Fund is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to the college education of women in Turkey since 1989 (Tax Exempt ID 36-3795606). All proceeds from this event will benefit TAWSF.
To download and print the event brochure please click here.
* Joe Yackley is a Senior Editor with the Oxford Business Group and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Yackley received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his M.A. from the University of Chicago. In a decade of resident consultancy, research, and journalism in Europe and the Middle East, Joe has written for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and wire services in English, Turkish, and German. He returned last year from six months each in Egypt and Turkey as a Fulbright Scholar. Joe has also held fellowships from the Robert Bosch Foundation, the State Department, and the International Center for Journalists. He teaches a course at the University of Chicago on Political Economy of the Middle East and is a co-author of Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy (Agate, 2011). Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the end of the program.


