Book Launch: While the Earth Sleeps We Travel by Ahmed M. Badr

13 November '20 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join author, poet, social entrepreneur and former refugee Ahmed M. Badr for the UK launch of his book ‘While the Earth Sleeps We Travel’

About this Event:
Ahmed will be in conversation with Mina Al-Oraibi (Editor in Chief, The National Newspaper) and Hassan Damluji (Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and author of The Responsible Globalist), moderated by the President of both the Cambridge Arab Society and Cambridge Yemen Society Shady M. Qubaty.

The event will take place on Zoom and you will receive the relevant details after signing up.

The event will also feature a performance by The Vision Collective, a Juilliard-founded initiative that strives to make refugees and immigrants feel recognised, valued, and celebrated through collaborative music-making.

Attending the panel is free; however, by ordering the book though our eventbrite, you will receive a SIGNED bookplate in your copy of While the Earth Sleeps We Travel, courtesy of the Heffers Bookstore. Please note the books will be shipped out after the event. Kindly allow up to two weeks for the book to ship to you. Customer details will be shared with Heffers for the purpose of fulfilling orders.

Venue

Zoom

Organiser

Cambridge University Arab society and Cambridge University Yemen Society

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