Elias Khoury in Conversation with Jeremy Harding - World Literature Weekend 2010

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Isabella Hammad & Laleh Khalili: Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun

Ghassan Kanafani, born in Acre in 1936, displaced by the Nakba in 1948 and assassinated in Beirut in 1972, was one of the leading Palestinian writers of his generation. In an event to mark a new edition of his masterpiece Men in the Sun (Verso) British-Palestinian writer Isabella ...  Show more

Holly Smith & Owen Hatherley: Up In the Air

In Up in the Air (Verso) architectural historian Holly Smith tells the story of Britain's multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the present day, charting how at different times it became the symbol of the welfare state’s idealistic principles, and of its failures. B ...  Show more

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