Fall 2021: Alexandria and the Quartet

Kathleen Sutherland talks about her Fall 2021 course, "Alexandria and the Quartet." This 8-Week course will be held Tuesday afternoons from 12:45 - 2:45, beginning September 14, 2021.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Alexandria, Egypt’s history dates back twenty-five hundred years ago to Alexander the Great’s founding. It experienced diverse cultural and religious epochs to the present day, as reflected in the four novels of Lawrence Durrell, known as the Alexandria Quartet. These novels centered on the period of World War Two. Kathleen has visited Alexandria from that period up to 2010 as a docent for the OLLI trip to Egypt. This course briefly covers the history of Alexandria and the city’s multicultural character as portrayed by Durrell in the four novels.

COURSE FEE: $50

FORMAT: lecture, discussion, film, Zoom

SUGGESTED BOOK: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, ISBN 978-0571283934

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Kathleen Sutherland was born and brought up in Egypt and spent over 35 years there. She has visited Alexandria many times as a young girl in World War II to 2010 when she led an OLLI trip to Egypt. She has taught at OLLI since 2005.