Upcoming Voice of Witness Events
Posted on August 23, 2011 | link
Join Voice of Witness and editor Alia Malek to celebrate the release of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice at a book event this fall. Read on to find an event near you.
Calendar of Events:
September 7th
Columbia University, New York, NY
5:00 pm
Panel Discussion with Granta Magazine: Islamophobia, the Media and Echoes of 9/11
Space is limited. RSVP to events@granta.com.
September 8th
The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at CUNY/Queens College
25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY
6:15 pm
Join Alia Malek for a reading and talk about Patriot Acts.
Space is limited. Please click here to RSVP. Attendees must present ID and sign in prior to the event.
September 13th
New York University, Gallatin Theater, 1 Washington Place, New York, NY
7:00 …
Join Alia Malek and Granta Magazine on September 7th
Posted on August 23, 2011 | link
Join Alia Malek, John Freeman and guests for a panel discussion on Islamophobia, storytelling and memory. Space is limited. Please RSVP to events@granta.com.
Sept. 7th, 2011
5:00pm
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway, New York
Islamophobia, the Media and Echoes of 9/11
Join Alia Malek, Granta magazine editor John Freeman, writer, sociologist and communications scholar Todd Gitlin, and Granta 116 poet and law professor Lawrence Joseph for a discussion. In association with South Asian Journalists Association and Granta.
Click here to read Alia’s piece in Granta.
PRE-ORDER OUR NEW BOOK ON WOMEN’S PRISONS
Posted on August 19, 2011 | link
“Inside This Place, Not Of It is precisely the kind of book we need now… I will never forget these women, or this book.” —Susan Straight, author of Take One Candle Light A Room
“I am passionately, ardently grateful for the existence of this book.” —Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
PRE-ORDER INSIDE THIS PLACE, NOT OF IT: NARRATIVES FROM WOMEN’S PRISONS AT THE MCSWEENEY’S STORE
Edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi, Inside This Place reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside—ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse …
