Book Talk | The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Join the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies for a book talk with Wendy Pearlman, author of The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora.

Wendy Pearlman is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she specializes in Middle East politics, social movements, and narrative approaches to understanding conflict and displacement. She is the author of six books: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora (Liveright Books, 2024); Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out (with Muzoon Almellehan, Knopf, 2023); Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States that Host Nonstate Actors (with Boaz Atzili, Columbia University Press, 2018); We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (HarperCollins, 2017); Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (Nation Books, 2003).