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Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
Boston, MA United States
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October 2023

A Reading and Conversation with Bachtyar Ali and Margaret Litvin at Boston University

October 2, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - October 4, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
Boston, MA United States
Free

Bachtyar Ali, author of The Last Pomegranate Tree, and translator Kareem Abdulrahman will be in conversation with World Languages & Literature professor Margaret Litvin to celebrate the recent publication of Ali’s The Last Pomegranate Tree—“a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s rule and Iraq’s Kurdish conflict." You can reserve your free ticket on Boston University's website. Bachtyar Ali was born in 1966 in Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq. In 1983, he was injured during…

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