Outcasts United: A Community Conversation with Luma Mufleh, Inspirational Coach and Founder of the Fugees Soccer Team October 3, 2012

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Luma Mufleh is the inspirational coach of a soccer team called the Fugees—short for refugees. Players, selected for resettlement in a small town outside Atlanta called Clarkston, are from 28 war-torn countries. Most of them have endured unimaginable hardship. They share the experience of being caught between worlds, and something else—a love of soccer, a game many of the boys learned to play in refugee camps using a bundle of plastic bags and twine for a ball.
The remarkable story of how these players, with Mufleh at the helm, found ways to connect and come together across broad cultural divides and oftentimes strong local resentment, was documented in the New York Times bestseller Outcasts United and is currently being made into a major motion picture by Universal Studios.
Seating is limited. To RSVP, please visit facinghistory.org/ communityconversations or call 312-345-3203. As part of Facing History’s national series of Community Conversations, this event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012
5:30–7:00 p.m.

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State St.
Chicago, IL