Writers Hisham Matar (My Friends), Rania Mamoun (Something Evergreen Called Life, trans Yasmine Seale), and Omar Khalifah (Sand-Catcher, trans Barbara Romaine) come together to discuss the duty of the writer during periods of global crisis, in a conversation moderated by writer and translator Yasmine Seale. What do writers owe their collective communities, as contemporary artists from Middle Eastern and North African countries? How do they navigate ambivalence, education, activism, and care in their creative and professional work, while avoiding cliche and the commodification of trauma?
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