Book Talk: Water on Fire: A Memoir of War. Tarek El Ariss
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Location
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St.
- Date
- Feb 6, 2025 4:00 pm
- Views
- 275
- Originating Calendar
- Middle East Events
Alternating between his perspective as a child and as an adult, Tarek El-Ariss explores how we live with trauma, poignantly illustrating the profound impact of war on our perception of the world, our fears and desires. His memoir is at once historical and universal, intellectual and introspective, the outcome of a long and painful process of excavation that reveals internal turmoil and the predicament of conflict and separation.