Voice of Witness

Join us in New York for ‘Voices from Burma’, a performance of narratives from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime and photography from Magnum photographers Chien Chi Chang, Lu Nan and James Mackey.

For a limited time, your purchase of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons can make an even greater impact on the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. Editor Ayelet Waldman will donate $1 for every pre-sale copy ordered on the McSweeney’s Store to help pay for narrator Sarah Chase’s college tuition.

Click here for an excerpt of Sarah’s story.

To pre-order a copy of Inside This Place, and help Sarah pay for college, click here.

Voice of Witness is delighted to announce several opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn more about our newest title, Patriot Acts, and hear from editor, Alia Malek.

We hope to see you at one of our events!

September 20th
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA
7:00 pm
Join editor Alia Malek and foreword writer Karen Korematsu (founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education) for a reading and talk.
Click here for more information.

September 21st
Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, Room 3203, San Francisco, CA
12:00 pm
Join Alia Malek for a reading and discussion, hosted by the American Constitution Society.

September 22nd
Santa Clara Law School, Bannan Hall, Room 142, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
12:00 pm
Join Alia Malek for a reading and discussion of Patriot Acts.
For more …

This week, the Latin America Working Group, a coalition of organizations dedicated to speaking out on foreign policy in Latin America, featured an excerpt from our forthcoming collection of oral histories No End In Sight: Narratives from Colombia’s Displaced. To read this excerpt, just click here.

Join editor Alia Malek at an event for the newest Voice of Witness title Patriot Acts this week. All events are free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

September 13th
7:00pm
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
New York University, New York, NY

Join Alia Malek and special guests at NYU for a roundtable discussion followed by a reception and book signing. For more information, click here.

September 14th
4:15 pm
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Haverford College, Haverford, PA

Join Alia Malek for a reading and discussion of  Patriot Acts. For more information, click here.

September 18th
11:00 am
Brooklyn Book Festival, Main Stage
Brooklyn, NY

Join Alia for 9/11 AT TEN. Ten years later, after the killing of Osama bin Laden and the continuation of many Bush-era national security polices by the Obama Administration, leading writers and …

“At a time when America is reflecting on years that have passed since September 11, 2001, Patriot Acts offers an opportunity to explore the dark side of our country’s response to the attacks. The strong voices contained in this collection offer first-hand insight into experiences of injustice often overlooked in post-9/11 media coverage.”
- Hamed Aleaziz, Mother Jones

The latest reviews of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice come from Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle and the blogs Jadaliyya and Caffeinated Muslim. Readers can also check out a Q&A with Alia Malek at New American Media.

Check back on our website for more coverage as it arrives, and scroll down to find a book event near you. This week Alia Malek will be speaking at …

Read an excerpt of narrators Uzma and Anser’s story in the September issue of the Boston Review.

Salon.com is featuring an excerpt from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice every day leading up to September 11. Click here to  read the first excerpt, from Rana Sodhi’s narrative. Rana is a Sikh-American businessman whose brother was gunned down outside his place of work. His death was the first reported hate-murder in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

This month, Hope Deferred editor Annie Holmes will be speaking at two events in South Africa, hosted by the African Gender Institute and the African Center for Migration and Society. A South African edition of the book, titled Don’t Listen To What I’m About To Say, has bee published by Jonathan Ball.

September 17, 2011
African Gender Institute
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Centre for African Studies Gallery,
Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building,
University of Cape Town
Book launch (Hope Deferred) & documentary screening (Girls Crossing Borders)

September 22, 2011
African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS)
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

SW Engineering Building,
University of Witwatersrand East Campus
Panel discussion featuring Annie Holmes and  Zaheera Jinna (ACMS)

Excerpts from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice were featured in the UK Guardian this weekend. Click here to read the excerpts.