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SUMMARY:Fadi Azzam with Ghada Alatrash in Person
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person on Thursday\, July 25 at 7 PM as Fad Azzam ta
 lks about his novel\, Huddud's House\, with the novel's translator.\nAbout
  the Book\nA haunting contemporary novel\, longlisted for the Internationa
 l Prize of Arabic Fiction\, Huddud's House is a rich tale of love in the t
 ime of war\, based in the storied city of Damascus.\n\nHow far is love wil
 ling to travel in search of its own lost voice?\n\nWhen tyranny unleashes 
 destructive forces that threaten to overwhelm a country\, what are the eff
 ects on the lives and choices of ordinary humans? When citizens become inh
 abitants of a land of extremes\, what do they do\, to whom do they flee?\n
 \nShadowing the days of Syria’s Arab spring\, Fadi Azzam’s epic novel\
 , Huddud’s House—a haunting\, contemporary novel rooted in the soil of
  Damascus\, the oldest inhabited city in humanity—is a sprawling tale of
  love in time of war. Focusing on a quartet of characters torn between lea
 ving and returning to Damascus\, it follows intertwining stories of love a
 nd violence to their boundaries.\n\nAzzam writes the spirit of resilience 
 and resistance of the Syrian peoples. A saga on the dangers of ignoring th
 reats or forgetting atrocities\, he braves a long-distance search for his 
 people’s voice\, one that violence cannot silence.\nAbout the Author\nFa
 di Azzam was born in 1973 in Swaida\, Southern Syria. He is an acclaimed f
 reelance journalist and the author of Sarmada and a collection of short st
 ories in Arabic titled Thahtaniat. Huddud’s House is his second novel to
  be translated into English and published by Interlink.\nAbout the Transla
 tor\nGhada Alatrash\, PhD\, is an assistant professor at the School of Cri
 tical and Creative Studies at Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary\, 
 Canada. She holds a PhD in Educational Research: Languages and Diversity f
 rom the Werklund School of Education\, the University of Calgary\, and a M
 aster’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma. He
 r current research speaks to Syrian art and creative expression as resista
 nce to oppression and dictatorship.
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