Public Talk
An Evening with Omar El Akkad and Kamila Shamsie
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist who covered the war on terror from Afghanistan to Guantanamo. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for Young Journalists.
Kamila Shamsie is an award-winning novelist with eight acclaimed books, including Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest, Best of Friends, won the Karachi Literature Festival/Getz Fiction Award.
The event will take place in the Auditorium at Georgetown University in Qatar.