Award-winning Syrian novelist, journalist and human rights activist, Samar Yazbek, will be discussing her new book as part of the University’s Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies’ seminar series on Thursday 20 October
Entitled ‘The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria’, the book is a personal account of Samar Yazbek’s secret journeys in Syria during the uprising against the Assad regime and the arrival of ISIS. Her story unveils the disturbing reality of Syria today through her personal testimony of hardship, brutality and poverty.
The University’s postcolonial research seminar series, which runs every Thursday until 8 December, features a wide range of leading writers and academics who focus on questions related to empire, colonialism and contemporary struggles in Third World countries.
The series over the following weeks will also include British socialist feminist theorist and writer, Sheila Rowbotham (Promise of a Dream) and Egyptian writer, Dalia Mostafa (Women and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution).
The event, which is free and open to students, staff and members of the public, begins at 16.00 and takes place in the Rutherford Seminar Room 4 at the University’s Canterbury campus.
The School of English’s Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is distinctive amongst UK universities and offers undergraduate and postgraduate students the opportunity to combine a broader study of literature along with more specialised postcolonial works.
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