MESSAGES FROM TAHRIR
Organisation: Leighton House Museum
Time: 22 November 2011 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Place: Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14
Leighton House Museum Presents
Messages from Tahrir
Writer and broadcaster Anthony Sattin leads a conversation with photographer Karima Khalil who presents some of the evocative images from her book, Messages from Tahrir.
Khalil has managed to capture a sense of the protests that brought down the Mubarak regime and for this special evening she gives her personal account of these history-making photographs.
"Astonishing and often deeply moving images from the frontline of one of the most hopeful moments in modern history." William Dalrymple, author, Nine Lives
"Photographs capture fleeting moments and live on, preserving truth and human emotion. This book chronicles the January 25 Revolution without text or theorizing; it presents the reality of what happened, changing Egypt and the whole Arab world." Alaa al Aswany, author, The Yacoubian Building
Karima Khalil is a doctor and photographer. She was overwhelmed by the power and eloquence of the signs many protesters were carrying so determinedly in Tahrir Square, and collected and captured these images and those of thirty-five other photographers in Messages from Tahrir, published by the American University in Cairo Press. She lives in Cairo with her husband, Max Rodenbeck, Middle East correspondent for the Economist, and their daughter Laila.
Anthony Sattin is a writer and broadcaster, a specialist on the Middle East and North Africa and one of the key influences in modern travel writing. He is the author of several highly-acclaimed books, most recently A Winter on the Nile and Lifting the Veil. Sattin is also a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Condé Nast Traveller and has been widely published in the UK and internationally.
Tuesday 22 November | 19:00 - 20:30 (doors open from 18:30)
Leighton House Museum
12 Holland Park Road
London
W14 8LZ
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