Book Talk: Our Hearts Burned for Home

Join us for a conversation about Emily Feng’s new book, Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War.

Currently a White House correspondent for NPR, Emily Feng spent many years as an international correspondent for the network, covering China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and conflict zones in the Middle East. She and the Wall Street Journal’s Natasha Khan will discuss how Feng came to write her new book—the first to feature in-person, in-depth interviews with the Uyghur militant community in Syria; how her years of reporting in the region helped her make the necessary connections to the Uyghurs featured in the book; and what she hopes her work—both this book and her journalism—will illuminate for the public about the little-understood Uyghur community, and other refugee or exile groups.

Copies of Our Hearts Burned for Home we be available for sale at the event.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.   Register now

Registration closes at 11:59 PM on Monday, October 26.

Columbia University
Pulitzer Hall
2950 Broadway
room 607B

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.

“Our Hearts Burned for Home is an essential addition to the literature of the Middle East. It’s an important story meticulously told.” —Barbara Demick, author of Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

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