Emily Feng at Asia Society
Join Asia Society for a timely conversation with NPR journalist Emily Feng on her groundbreaking new book Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War, an extraordinary work of reportage tracing one of the most surprising and consequential stories to emerge from the global war on terror.
Feng will be joined in conversation by New York Times journalist Michael Forsythe.
The event is presented by China Books Review, a digital magazine of reviews, essays, profiles and more.
Asia Society
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New York, NY 10021
What drove a few thousand men and women from the deserts and cities of western China to the front lines of Syria’s war? In Our Hearts Burned for Home, journalist Emily Feng unearths the untold story of Uyghur exiles who fled China’s expanding police state—only to become a pivotal force behind the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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