Time-travels in literature and politics

11 January 2012

Hisham Matar

Date: Thursday 26 January 

Time: 6.30

Venue: UCL  – Medical Sciences  AV Hill Lecture Theatre. Use the Malet Street entrance.

Book your free ticket on www.benali-matar.eventbrite.co.uk


The UCL Dutch Department is hosting a panel discussion with Abdelkader Benali (author of Wedding by the Sea, and journalist) and Hisham Matar (author of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and Booker Prize nominee) on freedom of speech, the Arab Spring and artistic responses now and in the past to revolutionary events.

Jo Glanville, editor of Index on Censor-ship, will chair the event.

The Netherlands Embassy will host a drinks reception after the discussion. 

Abdelkader Benali