Description
Join our popular, annual panel event as they dissect the big issues and offer analysis on what’s happening in the world today and how it might affect us all tomorrow.
Trying to make sense of what is happening in the world can feel overwhelming at times. You only have to turn on the news or scroll through stories on social media to be met with a barrage of negativity – whether it’s the growing climate crisis and the war in Ukraine or fears about a rising tide of poverty and our polarised political landscape.
However, it’s not all bad news – and thankfully our guest speakers, guided by foreign current affairs journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith, have their finger on the international pulse.
About the Speakers
Hassan Abdein
Hassan A. Abdein, Ph.d is a senior advisor to Unitas Communications. He is also a consultant in mediation and conflict resolution and has extensive experience working with multilateral organisations in the fields of advocacy for refugees, minorities and religious freedom. Hassan held senior roles in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and worked on OIC-UN efforts to tackle intolerance, discrimination, incitement to violence against people on the basis of religion or belief.
Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor based in London. She is the editor of seven anthologies on Middle Eastern art and culture, including two on Iran: Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations and Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran, with Hengameh Golestan. Halasa has written for The Guardian, Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement. She was previously an editor at the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam, Editor-at-Large for Portal 9 in Beirut, Lebanon, and a founding editor of Tank Magazine in London. She is currently Literary Editor for Middle Eastern arts magazine, the Markaz Review.
Kübra Gümüsay
Kübra Gümüsay is an award-winning writer from Germany. In her bestselling book Speaking and Being (Sprache und Sein) she examines how language dictates politics and shapes the way we think. In Germany the book sold over 120,000 copies and spent 13 consecutive weeks on Der Spiegel’s bestselling top 10 and was shortlisted for the WBG non-fiction book award. The English translation was published by Profile Books in 2022. Gümüsay was selected by Forbes Magazine as one of “30 under 30” in Europe in 2018 and also co-translated Amanda Gorman’s poetry collection ‘The Hill we Climb’ into German. Gümüsay is the founder of several award-winning campaigns and associations. In 2021 she was recipient of the Tarabya Artist in Residency Fellowship of the German Kulturakademie. In 2022, Gümüsay was a fellow at the Center for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) and Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University.
About the Chair
Rosie Goldsmith
Rosie Goldsmith is an award-winning journalist and presenter, specialising in arts and foreign affairs. A BBC staff journalist for twenty years, she travelled the world. Today she combines journalism with chairing and curating cultural events. Known as a champion of international literature, translation and languages, she promotes them whenever she can. She is Director of the European Literature Network and Editor-in-Chief of The Riveter magazine.
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