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⏲ Duration: 55 min 35 sec
✓ Published: 11-Apr-2018
✓ Published: 11-Apr-2018
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Join writers Abdellah Taïa (Morocco/France) and Chiké Frankie Edozien (Nigeria/USA) as they read from recent work and discuss the role of storytelling and journalism in today’s cultural resistance movements. Mythili Rao, producer at The New Yorker Radio Hour, will moderate. nnParticipant bios:nnAbdellah Taïa was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1973. He is the first Moroccan and Arab writer/filmmaker to publicly declare his homosexuality. The French Editions du Seuil has published seven of his bo
Join writers Abdellah Taïa (Morocco/France) and Chiké Frankie Edozien (Nigeria/USA) as they read from recent work and discuss the role of storytelling and journalism in today’s cultural resistance movements. Mythili Rao, producer at The New Yorker Radio Hour, will moderate. nnParticipant bios:nnAbdellah Taïa was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1973. He is the first Moroccan and Arab writer/filmmaker to publicly declare his homosexuality. The French Editions du Seuil has published seven of his bo
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