Event Lectures and Symposia Records of Survival: Escaping Genocide and Human Trafficking with Tahir Hamut Izgil and Saket Soni

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 12, 2023

    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

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  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Part of National Book Festival ; 2023 National Book Festival

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These first-person accounts help us face worldwide human rights violations happening today. Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil's “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night,” recounts his escape from genocide in China, while labor organizer Saket Soni’s “The Great Escape” details the story of Indian immigrants forced to work in America. Moderated by The Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian and joined by translator Joshua L. Freeman.

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