<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/0920-suleika-jaouad.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Suleika Jaouad shares wisdom, meditations on creativity</title><author>Angela Valden</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>09/23/2024 01:48:14 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>The New York Times best-selling author of Skidmore’s 2024 First-Year Experience summer reading selection, “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,” speaks candidly with the Class of 2028.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/0920-suleika-jaouad-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Suleika Jaouad speaks to the Class of 2028"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/0920-suleika-jaouad-feature.jpg" alt="Suleika Jaouad speaks to the Class of 2028"/></image><caption>Suleika Jaouad (right), New York Times best-selling author of the 2024 First-Year Experience (FYE) summer reading selection “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,” engaged in conversation with panelists (from left) Kieron Dwayne Sargeant, assistant professor of dance; Ben Bogin, associate professor of Asian studies; and Barbara Black, professor of English and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, Sept. 16 in Arthur Zankel Music Center. The campus visit was part of Skidmore’s FYE programming for the Class of 2028.</caption></item>