The Frost Foundation Lectureship for Global Issues has booked Greg Mortenson, co-author of the bestseller Three Cups of Tea, as guest speaker for next year's event. It is scheduled for the evening of Monday, Jan. 24 at an on-campus venue to be announced.  Three Cups of Tea, which Mortenson co-wrote with David Oliver Relin, will also be the common reading for the fall semester.

 

More specific information will be available in the fall from the Center for International Studies: TCU Abroad at studyabroad@tcu.edu.

 

Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org, founder of Pennies For Peace www.penniesforpeace.org, and co-author of New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea www.threecupsoftea.com which has sold 3.6 million copies, been published in 41 countries, and a New York Times bestseller for over three years since its 2007 release, and Time Magazine Asia Book of The Year.

 

Mortenson’s new book, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books Not Bombs, In Afghanistan and Pakistan, was released by Viking on Dec. 1, 2009 and debuted as #2 on The New York Times bestseller list. As of 2010, Mortenson has established over 131 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to over 58,000 children, including 48,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before.

 

In 2009, Mortenson received Pakistan’s highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan (“Star of Pakistan”) for his humanitarian effort to promote girls education in rural areas for 15 years. Several bi-partisan U.S. Congressional representatives have nominated Mortenson twice for the Nobel Peace Prize in both 2009 and 2010.