Nowhere To Be Home editors Maggie Lemere and Zoë West finished their successful East Coast tour last night with a packed event at Housing Works, NYC. Thanks to everyone who came out in support!
Maggie and Zoë will be hitting the Bay Area this Saturday with an event at 826 Valencia.
See below for details on this and other events in the coming week.
Voice of Witness is delighted to present Bay Area readers with four great opportunities to hear from Maggie Lemere and Zoë West, editors of our latest title Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime. Read on for a list of our Bay Area events!
April 2nd
Nowhere to Be Home Book Launch
Join editors Maggie Lemere and Zoë West for a reading and reception to celebrate the release of Nowhere to Be Home.
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: 826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
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April 4th
Nowhere to be Home Reading and Discussion at UC Berkeley
Join editors Maggie Lemere and Zoë West for a reading and discussion at Berkeley. This event is sponsored in part by the Institute of East Asian Studies, the Berkeley Human Rights Center and the Graduate School of Journalism.
Time: 3:00 pm
Where: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Flo0r) 6F Conference …
The Voice of Witness team is on the road for the rest of the month, presenting readings in New York, Iowa and South Africa. We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events!
Upcoming events:
March 29th
Hope Deferred Reading and Book Launch in Cape Town, South Africa, featuring Editor Annie Holmes
Time: 5:30 pm
Where: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland St, Cape Town, South Africa
Also on March 29th
The Intersection of Oral History and Human Rights: Documenting Burma
Join Columbia’s Oral History Research Office and Voice of Witness for a reading and roundtable discussion.
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 523, New York City.
March 30th
Nowhere to Be Home Reading at Housing Works
Maggie Lemere, Zoë West and special guests read and discuss Nowhere to Be Home.
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Housing Works …
Voice of Witness is delighted to announce the release of our newest title: Nowhere to be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime, edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoë West. The seventh title in the Voice of Witness series, Nowhere to be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories from men and women whose lives have been deeply altered by the county’s oppressive military regime.
Click here to order your copy today!
To find out about readings and author events near you, just click here.
Read an excerpt from Nowhere to be Home, featured by the Democratic Voice of Burma by clicking here.
Join editors Maggie Lemere and Zoë West for a reading and discussion of Nowhere to be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime, Wednesday, March 16th in Charlottesville, VA.
Last week, during a hearing convened by Representative Peter King concerning the ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims, Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, took the stand. Many were struck by his impassioned description of a young paramedic named Salman Hamdani, who died at ground zero and was later erroneously singled out as a suspected terrorist.
Salman’s mother, Talat Hamdani, is among the narrators in our forthcoming book of oral histories documenting post-9/11 discrimination, profiling and other injustices. Click here to read an excerpt of her narrative on McSweeneys.net.
by Philip Hoover
Voice of Witness’ latest book Hope Deferred demonstrates how opposition to Robert Mugabe’s party is silenced with intimidation and violence. Yesterday, The New York Times wrote that Zimbabwe cabinet member Elton Mangoma was arrested recently after a home interview in which he revealed scars from a 2007 police beating, which left his knee cap shattered. Mr. Mangoma is officially accused by the state of criminal abuse of office for procuring fuel illegally, a charge his lawyer has denied.
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), stated that Mugabe’s party ZANU-PF is attempting to “promote chaos and fear in the country.” Mr. Tsvangirai said that Mr. Mangoma and MDC activists held in detention are “innocent victims of a barbaric and senseless dictatorship.”
In anticipation of next week’s release of Nowhere to be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime, we’re delighted to announce several more readings and discussion events for Nowhere to be Home, as well as our recent release Hope Deferred.
Join editor Annie Holmes for a reading and discussion of Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives at George Washington University.
On March 3rd at 1:00pm EST, Hope Deferred editors Peter Orner and Annie Holmes join host Kojo Nnamdi for a live, in-studio discussion of their book and the situation in Zimbabwe.
In the Washington, DC area, tune in to 88.5 FM or visit The Kojo Nnamdi Show to listen online.
To learn more about Hope Deferred, click here.
Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/
