"We feel their world caving in around them." Executive Director Irene Yoon shares her staff pick of 2023: Benno Weiner's review of "Waiting to be Arrested at Night" and "The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang." lareviewofbooks.org/article/fear-a…

If you haven't already, I urge you to read Benno Weiner's Los Angeles Review of Books of Tahir Hamut Izgil's WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT (trans by Joshua L. Freeman). A wonderful summary and contextualization of perhaps the most important work on contemporary Asia this year.

The finalists for the NBCC John Leonard Prize are Ariana Benson, Emilie Boone, Victor Heringer and James Young, Tahir Hamut Izgil and Joshua L. Freeman, Donovan X. Ramsey, and Martin J. Siegel.

I was very moved today to learn that Tahir H. Izgil's memoir 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, in my English translation, is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, for the best first book in any genre. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

Very proud of Tahir H. Izgil, who has received the 2024 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent, along w dissident artists fr Iran & Venezuela. Powerful recognition of Tahir's writing & activism & will help further raise awareness of the crisis in the #Uyghur homeland.

Congratulations to our Long-listed authors: Azam Ahmed Jonathan Blitzer Patricia Evangelista #KatherineGordeeva Tahir H. Izgil (Joshua L. Freeman ) Colin McFarlane Dr.Sima Samar Alpa Shah Nathan Thrall #2024MoorePrize #HumanRights #literaryprize

WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT has been long-listed for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. Congratulations Tahir H. Izgil and translator Joshua L. Freeman! @cgmooreprize #2024MoorePrize

Proud to have been named finalist for the Washington Monthly's Kukula Award for my review of Tahir H. Izgil's Waiting to be Arrested at Night and Perhat Tursun's Backstreets. Thanks to Los Angeles Review of Books Jeff Wasserstrom Brian Spivey Josh Weiner + translators Joshua L. Freeman Darren Byler CMU History

So honored that my essay on Perhat Tursun's "The Backstreets" and Darren Byler's "Terror Capitalism" in @TheNation (thenation.com/article/world/…), edited by David Marcus, has received the 2024 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from @Monthly: washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/21/the…

Paperback copies have landed in the office! WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT is an urgent call for the world to awaken to a humanitarian catastrophe - and a piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history. 'Essential reading' AI WEIWEI, author of

No one has had a greater influence on contemporary #Uyghur poetry than Ekhmetjan Osman. Now, read some of my translations of his early work, just published in Common Knowledge — "Look, my friend, I've smashed my hopes, as yesterday I smashed my chains." read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowled…

Just received this terrific poster for my upcoming talk in Taipei! Thanks to Joshua L. Freeman for organizing and the 西學與中國研究群 at Academia Sinica for hosting. If you are in Taipei on July 24, please stop by!

'Heart-wrenching... beautifully written' DAILY TELEGRAPH '[I] devoured it in one night' i 'A lived-in page-turner... Lucid and quietly terrifying' WASHINGTON POST WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman, is out today in paperback!

Just came across this 2005 picture of my friend Rahile Dawut, fr the cover of one of the Uyghur region's most widely read journals. This gifted anthropologist & lovely human being is now serving a life sentence in a Chinese prison for the crime of being born a Uyghur. #FreeRahile

刚刚看到我的朋友 Rahile Dawut 这张 2005 年的照片，该照片刊登在维吾尔地区最被广泛阅读的期刊之一的封面。这位才华横溢的人类学家和美好和善的人现在却因生为维吾尔人而在中国监狱中服无期徒刑。 #FreeRahile x.com/jlfreeman6/sta…

خەير-خوش، ئىززەتبۈۋى ھەدە. سىزدىن كۆپ نەرسە ئ‍ۆگەندىم ھەم سىزنى ئەسلەپ تۇرىمەن. rfa.org/uyghur/xewerle…

A corner of JF Books 季風書園 on the past and present of Xinjiang and Uyghur life, featuring the works of Tahir H. Izgil (Waiting to be Arrested at Night, translated into English by Joshua L. Freeman), Eric Schluessel (Land of Strangers), and Darren Byler (In the Camps).

Great news: Aziz Isa Elkun's remarkable collection of 20th-century #Uyghur materials will now be housed at Princeton University, thanks to hard work of librarians Joshua Seufert, Martin Heijdra & others. I'm glad to have played a small part in setting this in motion. library.princeton.edu/about/library-…