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Aug 14, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Darren Byler |James A. Millward |Tahir Hamut Izgil
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang It's hard not to be aware of what is going in Xinjiang (literally 'new province') in western China where concentration camps are making a comeback. It's where the Uyghurs live, a generally Muslim ethnic minority who have never appreciated being ruled from Beijing.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
orartswatch.org | Timothy Snyder |Heather Clark |Carlos Ruiz Zafón |Tahir Hamut Izgil
If you’re still looking for the perfect holiday gift for the bibliophile in your life, we’re here to help. We asked Oregon authors to pick their current favorites. Whether you’re trying to race the USPS holiday shipping deadlines and send books off to loved ones or want to add something fresh to your personal 2024 reading list, Casey Parks, Gabi Snyder, Willa Schneberg, Carla Perry, and others have exciting suggestions for excellent winter reads.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
time.com | Tahir Hamut Izgil
Poet Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide, offers a personal and moving look at the persecution of the Uyghur people by the Chinese government beginning in the mid-’90s.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Tahir Hamut Izgil |Daniel York Loh
More ways to listen Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email When hundreds of my fellow Uyghurs started disappearing into ‘re-education camps’ every day, it became clear that it was only a matter of time before I would be detained.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
vnexplorer.net | Tahir Hamut Izgil
Waiting to Be Arrested at Nightby Tahir Hamut Izgil, tr Joshua L Freeman272pp, Vintage, T£18.99 (0844 71 1514), RRP£18.99, ebook £9.99[FIVE STARS]review by Sophia YanOne summer evening in Xinjiang in 2017, Tahir Hamut Izgil placed a pair of sturdy shoes by his front door, and laid out some clothes. Mass arrests of the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim group, were happening across his homeland; just a few days before, a close friend had disappeared.
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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.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
penguin.co.uk | Tahir Hamut Izgil
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.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Tahir Hamut Izgil |Shenaz Patel |Wesley Lewis
I was born at the very end of the 1960s in a poor, unattractive little settlement on the northwestern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. This settlement was a production brigade in the Peyzawat Land Reclamation Sector, which belonged to the third division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The production brigades in the sector were situated several kilometers from one another; traveling between brigades meant a trip down dirt roads through the desert.
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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.
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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.
