Stories From a Syrian Refugee – Ep 81 with Perween Richards

Read Learn Live Podcast by Jon Menaster : Lover of Literature

Oct 15, 202045:51Health

Drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the ‘world’s largest prison’—Gaza—Nayrouz Qarmout’s stories in The Sea Cloak (translated by Perween Richards) stitch together a stirring patchwork of perspecti...

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