My Country: A Syrian Memory

While compatriots took up arms against the army of Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian Syrian Kassem Eid resolved to make his contribution via journalism and advocacy. The Government’s chemical attack on the people of Ghouta changed that. Kassem’s haunting eyewitness account of al-Assad’s Sarin gas attack in August 2013 was published by The New York Times and spawned his powerful memoir, My Country, a condemnation of a brutal war and a world that tolerated it.

Chair: Jon Jureidini

Supported by Goethe Institut Australia

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Kassem Eid is a Syrian refugee, human rights activist, writer and author of the memoir My Country.

Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist who heads Adelaide University’s Critical and Ethical Mental Health research group and the Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit. He is chair of Australian-Palestinian Partnerships in Education and Health.

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