In response to widespread requests from Maine libraries for a series focusing on the Middle East, the Maine Humanities Council and Mahmud Faksh, a Middle East expert and professor at the University of Southern Maine, have developed a special Let’s Talk About It series entitled “Behind the Headlines: An Introduction to the Middle East.”

Faksh will facilitate the discussions at the Scarborough Public Library using the recently published anthology, “The Contemporary Middle East,” as a central text.

The three-part series will be held on April 5, April 12 and April 19 from 6-8 p.m., and is free and open to the public.

For more information or to register, call the Scarborough Public Library at 883-4723. For information regarding additional library programs, go to www.library.scarborough.me.us.