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2025 PEN World Voices Festival: Writing as Resistance

Izgil at 2025 PEN World Voices Festival: Writing as Resistance

Posted on January 9, 2026January 21, 2026 by admin

Through the mediums of memoir and poetry, Uyghur poet and memoirist Tahir Hamut Izgil and Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail challenge dominant political narratives and preserve stories of displacement, exile and perseverance. In his memoir, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, Izgil documents the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghur people and his time in a labor camp. In Mikhail’s… Continue reading

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