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Webinar - The Persecution of Uyghurs
31/10/2020 5:30pm
British Association for Turkish Area Studies
The long repression and cultural diminution of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples turned into systemic annihilation in Xinjian with the establishment of a vast network of concentration camps. In this talk, Dr Özcan will discuss how the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) two-faced ideological identity of communism enhanced with Chinese characteristics and a Han nationalist imperial discourse has gained speed and taken shape with Chairman Xi Jinping. G
31/10/2020 5:30pm
British Association for Turkish Area Studies
The long repression and cultural diminution of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples turned into systemic annihilation in Xinjian with the establishment of a vast network of concentration camps. In this talk, Dr Özcan will discuss how the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) two-faced ideological identity of communism enhanced with Chinese characteristics and a Han nationalist imperial discourse has gained speed and taken shape with Chairman Xi Jinping. G
Book Launch - Between the Moon and Beirut
05/11/2020 6:00pm
Middle East and North Africa Centre (MENACS), University of Sussex
Born and raised in Beirut, Naji Bakhti graduated from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon, 2011). He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Westminster (2012) and recently obtained a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. His works have been published in the Guardian and the New Statesman among others and he has been interviewed by the National, the London Magazine and the Middle East Eye. Between Beirut and the Moon (Influx Press, 2020) is his first novel.
Saturday 3rd October 2020
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