Freelance journalist Mona Eltahawy at a Socrates seminar event on her arrest in Egypt and how Twitter helped her get her message out and, ultimately, freed.Watch the full session.
When your life experiences give you both insider cred and outsider status, what kind of perspective do you bring to the page? Get the skinny from two expat writers who are straddling countries and cultures while writing about their own participation in the story.
This year’s festival will celebrate the magical literature of the modern Middle East. Against the backdrop of ancient lands where paper was born and poetry has flourished since days of yore, the rich sweep of storytelling continues in today’s novels, memoir, and narrative journalism.
