This is a conversation with Shareah Taleghani, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Arabic at Queens College at the City University of New York and the author of the book "Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights" published by Syracuse University Press.

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Topics Discussed:

Background and context, Syrian prison literature
Poetics of human rights, and how Syrian prison literature affected her view of human rights
On Tadmor military prison
On censorship, arbitrariness and tanfis in Syria
Arab critics, literature and human rights
Effects of truth
Universality of prison literature
Syrian prison literature and the 2011 revolution
Selective solidarity and global prison abolitionism (US, Iran, Syria)

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Recommended Books:

The Shell by Mustafa Khalifa
A Dove in Free Flight by Faraj Bayrakdar
Forced Passages by Dylan Rodríguez

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