Lecture: “What Can be Saved?” – Lina Mounzer on Ali Cherri (EN)
In the context of Soul Witness, writer and translator Lina Mounzer will explore the evolution and recurrence of images, themes, and ideas in Ali Cherri's work, through the lens of a 20-year-long collaboration and an even longer personal friendship.
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Lina Mounzer is a Lebanese writer and translator. Her work has appeared in Equator, The Paris Review, Freeman’s, and The Baffler, as well as in the anthologies Tales of Two Planets (Penguin 2020), Best American Essays 2022 (Harper Collins 2022), and Gaza: The Story of a Genocide (Verso Books 2025). She is Editor-in-Chief of the literary arts and culture magazine The Markaz Review. Her short memoir of Beirut and its recent disasters, Janus City, is forthcoming from OR Books in October 2026.
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Practical
- Wednesday 9 December, 19:00
- Free event
- Registration is recommended
