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The Writing Lives Series: Literature, Exile, and the “Arab Spring”

Past Series, The Writing Lives Series

December 7, 2011

This Writing Lives event featured Hisham Matar, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel In the Country of Men, and more recently, Anatomy of a Disappearance. In addition to reading from his work, Hisham Matar spoke with Bashir-Abu Manneh of Barnard College on the topic of "Literature, Exile, and the 'Arab Spring."

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