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Syrian Voices
Robin Yassin-Kassab, commentator on Syria and the Middle East and the author of the novel The Road From Damascus, and Leila Al-Shami, human rights activist in Syria, co-authors of Middle East Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press, 2016), offer ground-up analysis of the military, political and humanitarian facets of the Syrian crisis.
→ Hear more: The authors will be reading at the following locations:
- April 21, 12:30 PM: NYU, Richard Ettinghausen Library — 255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
- April 21, 6:00 PM: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, World Room (Third Floor), 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street)
- April 22, 3:00 PM: The New School, Eugene Lang College, Wollman Hall, Room B500 (65 West 11th Street)
- April 23, 7:00 PM: Bluestockings Bookstore, Café & Activist Center, 172 Allen Street