Name: Voices from Syria
Start: 2018-02-09T20:00:00
Location: The Commonwealth Club

Past Event

Voices from Syria

Wendy Pearlman has spent years living in the Arab world. She will discuss her latest book, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, a fierce and poignant collection of stories based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians.

MLF Organizer

Celia Menczel

Notes

Pearlman photo by Maia Rosenfeld

MLF: Middle East

February 9, 2018

The Commonwealth Club
110 The Embarcadero
Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium
San Francisco, 94105
United States

Audio Recording

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Speakers

Wendy Pearlman

Specialist, Middle East Politics; Associate Professor, Northwestern University; Author, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Jonathan Curiel

Journalist—Moderator

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