Description
Join us for our annual Free Word Lecture, which aims to uphold the ethos of free speech with a focus on the power and politics of words.
Continuing the legacy of the Free Word Centre, an international centre for literature, literacy and free expression, this annual event creates a platform for writers to spark stimulating conversations and challenge our assumptions about the world.
Following in the footsteps of previous speakers Ben Okri and Rana Ayyub, this year’s lecture promises to be another unmissable event exploring the transformative and democratising power of words and the importance of freedom of expression.
About the Journalist
Secunder Kermani
Secunder Kermani, Channel 4 News’ Foreign Affairs Correspondent and the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year 2024, is renowned for his fearless reporting. He has played a leading role in covering the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and is one of the few foreign journalists to have reported inside rebel-held territory in Myanmar, where a brutal civil war is raging. Secunder was previously the BBC’s Pakistan and Afghanistan Correspondent, witnessing firsthand the dramatic rise to power of the Taliban and chaotic withdrawal of western forces.
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