Friday 16 August 10:45 - 11:45
Gavin Francis celebrates bridges he’s encountered across decades of travel in The Bridge Between Worlds: the ones that connect places, people, and ideas. Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama examines the impact of walls: the literal,...
Friday 16 August 17:00 - 18:00
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In 2012, a horrific bus crash on the outskirts of Jerusalem killed many Palestinian schoolchildren. One of them was five-year-old Milad Salama and, in tracing his father Abed’s efforts to find his son, journalist Nathan Thrall tells the story of lives...
Friday 16 August 19:30 - 20:30
In a world obsessed with borders, then bridges link lands, communities, and ideas. In a new non-fiction book, Sunday Times bestselling author and doctor Gavin Francis explores the history of bridges and how they connect us – both metaphorically and...
Saturday 17 August 12:15 - 13:15
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Twice Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma’s new novel, The Road to the Country, is the story of two brothers divided during the devastating Nigerian Civil War. As they seek to reunite, their journeys become odysseys in a war-torn land. Obioma...
Saturday 17 August 15:45 - 16:45
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In Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, New Historian Avi Shlaim critically reflects on the history of Zionism, Israel, and his own childhood after being forced to flee Baghdad, aged five. Also blending the personal and political, esteemed writer Raja...
Sunday 18 August 11:45 - 12:45
From the personal to the political: what and how we eat says so much about who we are. Tamimi talks with Chitra Ramaswamy about food as a symbol of resistance, celebration and community.
Sunday 18 August 12:30 - 13:30
Early in his childhood, Avi Shlaim and his family were forced to flee from their home in Iraq, to reconstruct their lives in the new state of Israel. Now, the award-winning historian’s memoir, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, examines how his...
Sunday 18 August 21:00 - 22:30
An evening embroidered with poetry and performance, accompanied by traditional Oud music and a visual score from Gazan filmmaker Hossam Abo Shammallah. Featuring Palestinian performers alongside others expressing their solidarity, share in this...
Monday 19 August 19:30 - 20:30
With democracy more precarious than ever, three internationally focussed authors about how we got here. Former BBC journalist Nick Bryant examines America’s internal political conflict in The Forever War; Olesya Khromeychuk’s The Death of a Soldier...
Tuesday 20 August 19:30 - 20:30
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Former cellmate of Nelson Mandela and PM of the Western Cape, Ebrahim Rassol talks with his co-authors, Dr Houda Abadi and Mark Muller Stuart KC, about their new book, A Guide to Islamic Principles of Peace-Making, and why they are needed more than ever...