Overtaken By Events in print! and events in Chicago, Tampa, San Jose
Dear friends,
My new book Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip will finally be in print in early April, which is also when I will (inshallah) return home from two weeks of hard travel, including five days in Haiti. If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of Overtaken By Events, please support my work by ordering it online or mailing a check for US$25 per copy, payable to “Alive and Well in Pakistan,” to P.O. Box 85315, Seattle, WA 98145-1315. Any copies ordered in the next two weeks will be shipped, with a personal thank-you note from me, immediately after I return to Seattle in the first half of April. Get books for your friends and family too, or to donate to schools and libraries.
I’ll be traveling a lot over the next couple of weeks, and wanted to let you know about the events I’ll be speaking at:
- An informational launch meeting for my good friend Fawad Butt’s community banking initiative, Crescent Bancshares Corp., Rosemont, Illinois, Saturday, March 27.
The Pakistani American Association of Greater Tampa Bay, Pakistan Resolution Day event, Sunday, March 28:
- The annual Chicago fundraiser for Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute, Saturday, April 3. I won’t be able to be at this event in person, unfortunately, but every attendee will be given a complimentary copy of Overtaken By Events, along with Greg’s book Stones Into Schools and other goodies.
- The South Bay Islamic Association and the Pakistani American Culture Center on Friday, April 2 in San Jose, California.
Please come to one of these events if you can make it. I’ll be offline while in Haiti, March 20-26, and only sporadically online before April 5. Many thanks to all of you for your longstanding and ongoing support for my work.
Best regards,
Ethan
Pakistani-led group returns from Haiti
Ethan Casey with Todd Shea, Dr. Farzana Naqvi (front row, second from left), Dr. Salman Naqvi (back row, next to Todd), and other members of a Pakistani-led group that provided medical relief after the earthquake in Haiti, at a reunion in Irvine, California, February 28, 2010.
If I haven’t posted a blog entry in more than two weeks, it’s because – as usual – I’ve been busy with other things. I spent a successful week in Colorado in early February, speaking at two churches and three colleges, including the Air Force Academy. And I just returned from a busy weekend in Orange County, California, whose main event was a fundraiser for Todd Shea’s organization SHINE Humanity (see its excellent new website). The short speech I was able to give there was very gratifying, because I’m very proud of and grateful to Todd as well as Pakistani friends for responding so promptly, intelligently and compassionately to the earthquake in Haiti. Haiti is a very old friend of mine, so my gratitude is personal. Here’s a short excerpt:
Todd is not the only American in this room who has worked in Haiti since the earthquake. I want to single out two others: Dr. Farzana Naqvi and Dr. Salman Naqvi. The story of how Farzana, Salman and others have stepped up as physicians, as Muslims, as Pakistanis who know the devastation an earthquake can cause, and not least as Americans, is a powerful message that the American public needs to hear.
I’ve published the full speech on this website under the “Speaking” tab, along with some photos that I showed that evening.
My new book Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is at the printer and will (inshallah) be published later this month. I’m looking forward to introducing it at events in Chicago on March 27 and Tampa on March 28. More on those, and other travel and promotion, as the publication date nears. If you haven’t yet purchased your copy, now is a great time to ensure that your copy comes signed and with a personal letter from me by pre-ordering it from this website. I’ll be sitting down in early April to send out all pre-ordered copies.
More soon!
