Read For Action - The Power of Fiction & Connecting to Humanitarian Crisis 

A panel conversation on Bruce Holsinger’s The Displacements (Riverhead 2022) and the contemporary novel and humanitarian crisis for Read for Action: the Humanitarian Book Club on Climate, Conflict & Humanitarian Crisis. Panelists: Omar El Akkad, journalist and novelist (American War, 2017 and What Strange Paradise, 2021), Hawa Sabriye, UNICEF Somalia and an education specialist, and Bruce Holsinger, novelist and Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History, moderated by Dr. Adrienne Ghaly, Humanitarian Collaborative Practitioner Fellow, University of Virginia.