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Balsam Karam & Adania Shibli: Lost and Found

Saturday 10 August 16:00 - 17:00

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In The Singularity and Minor Detail, Balsam Karam and Adania Shibli have written two challenging yet deeply powerful novels of loss. Or losses, really, because they are numerous, complex, and recurring: children disappear, homelands are left behind…
 

Adania Shibli: Against Forgetting

Sunday 11 August 14:15 - 15:15

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Why not try? Álvaro Enrigue & Chigozie Obioma: History and Myth Álvaro Enrigue & Chigozie Obioma: History and Myth Sun 18 Aug 16:00 - 17:00
 

Patricia Evangelista: The Terrible Becomes Ordinary

Monday 12 August 14:15 - 15:15

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Language matters, and when we talk about atrocities as if they are commonplace, we start normalising their happening. Award-winning investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista talks to Jen Stout about Some People Need Killing, discussing six years of…
 

Generations: Allan Little & Jen Stout

Tuesday 13 August 14:00 - 15:00

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Veteran BBC correspondent Allan Little is joined by Jen Stout, a journalist, radio producer, and author. Together they compare notes of their experience of journalism across the generations. Chaired by Caroline Eden…
 

Paul Caruana Galizia & Patricia Evangelista: Speaking Truth to Power

Tuesday 13 August 18:00 - 19:00

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In this event, two journalists who have rigorously investigated the corrupt and murderous tactics of those in power join forces. These fearless writers talk with Maddison Connaughton today about truth and democracy…
 

Peter Pomerantsev & Marianna Spring: Trial by Misinformation

Wednesday 14 August 12:15 - 13:15

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Two titanic voices in the analysis of booming misinformation and conspiracy theories, Peter Pomerantsev and Marianna Spring, come together for an essential summit on one of the great dangers of our time, in conversation with Maddison Connaughton…
 

Jeremy Bowen: Making the Middle East

Wednesday 14 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Jeremy Bowen, International Editor BBC News, has been covering the Middle East since 1989. His deep understanding of the political, cultural, and religious differences between countries as diverse as Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Palestine shine from The…
 

Ben Ansell & Robin Niblett: New World Order

Wednesday 14 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Two leading experts assess the current state of global politics with Hind Hassan. In Why Politics Fails, Oxford Professor Ben Ansell guides voters through our current system’s pitfalls, so that we can achieve true democracy. Meanwhile, Chatham House…
 

Raja Shehadeh: What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

Thursday 15 August 16:00 - 17:00

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Why not try? Beyond Borders: An International Life Beyond Borders: An International Life Wed 21 Aug 19:30 - 20:30
 

Peter Pomerantsev: Voices of Dissent

Thursday 15 August 17:45 - 18:45

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In 1941, a German broadcaster, Der Chef, spoke out against Hitler from inside the Nazi regime. However, "Der Chef" and his infamous voice of dissent was, in fact, the creation of British propagandist, Sefton Delmer. Talking about How to Win an…