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SUMMARY:Fadi Azzam with Ghada Alatrash in Person
DESCRIPTION:About the Book\nA haunting contemporary novel\, longlisted for 
 the International Prize of Arabic Fiction\, Huddud's House is a rich tale 
 of love in the time of war\, based in the storied city of Damascus.\n\nHow
  far is love willing to travel in search of its own lost voice?\n\nWhen ty
 ranny unleashes destructive forces that threaten to overwhelm a country\, 
 what are the effects on the lives and choices of ordinary humans? When cit
 izens become inhabitants 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 roote
 d in the soil of Damascus\, the oldest inhabited city in humanity—is a s
 prawling tale of love in time of war. Focusing on a quartet of characters 
 torn between leaving and returning to Damascus\, it follows intertwining s
 tories of love and violence to their boundaries.\n\nAzzam writes the spiri
 t of resilience and resistance of the Syrian peoples. A saga on the danger
 s of ignoring threats or forgetting atrocities\, he braves a long-distance
  search for his people’s voice\, one that violence cannot silence.\nAbou
 t the Author\nFadi Azzam was born in 1973 in Swaida\, Southern Syria. He i
 s an acclaimed freelance journalist and the author of Sarmada and a collec
 tion of short stories in Arabic titled Thahtaniat. Huddud’s House is his
  second novel to be translated into English and published by Interlink.\nA
 bout the Translator\nGhada Alatrash\, PhD\, is an assistant professor at t
 he School of Critical and Creative Studies at Alberta University of the Ar
 ts in Calgary\, Canada. She holds a PhD in Educational Research: Languages
  and Diversity from the Werklund School of Education\, the University of C
 algary\, and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University
  of Oklahoma. Her current research speaks to Syrian art and creative expre
 ssion as resistance to oppression and dictatorship.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nThursday
 \, July 25 · 7 - 8pm EDT
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