Joshua Freeman

Aug 3, 2023 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Kenan Malik |Tahir Hamut Izgil |Joshua Freeman

Description A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading' AI WEIWEI'Deeply courageous' PHILIPPE SANDS'Exceptionally powerful' JULIA LOVELLIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful from his minority Muslim community to escape the genocide being visited upon his homeland in western China.

Aug 2, 2023 | lmtonline.com | Tahir Hamut Izgil |Joshua Freeman |Dan Keane

Penguin. 251 pp. $28 - - - When mass detentions swept China's Xinjiang province in 2017, Tahir Hamut Izgil was one of the rising Uyghur writers of his generation. Now safely settled with his family in Washington, he's one of the few who escaped. It seems fitting, then, that Izgil's lucid and quietly terrifying memoir, "Waiting to Be Arrested at Night," while alive with heartbreaking tributes to writer friends now vanished into the camps, repeatedly returns to moments of eerie silence.

Aug 2, 2023 | worldnews2023.com | Amandeep Buttar |Tahir Hamut Izgil |Joshua Freeman

Comment on this storyCommentWhen mass detentions swept China’s Xinjiang province in 2017, Tahir Hamut Izgil was one of the rising Uyghur writers of his generation. Now safely settled with his family in Washington, he’s one of the few who escaped. It seems fitting, then, that Izgil’s lucid and quietly terrifying memoir, “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night,” while alive with heartbreaking tributes to writer friends now vanished into the camps, repeatedly returns to moments of eerie silence.