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Writing and Resistance: Ahmed Masoud in conversation with Dr Sophie Chamas

Caponeu event

04.03.2024 - 04.03.2024

In this dialogue, Palestinian novelist Ahmed Masoud and academic Dr Sophie Chamas discuss Masoud's novel, Come What May (2022). The conversation explores the place of literature in Palestinian life and the political significance of narrating the lived experience of people struggling under oppresion and occupation.

https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/02/11/ahmed-masoud-in-conversation-with-sophie-chamas/

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