{"id":9227,"date":"2024-05-08T07:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2024-05-08T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:30:53","slug":"whispering-walls-by-choman-hardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/whispering-walls-by-choman-hardi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whispering Walls&#8221; by Choman Hardi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9227\" class=\"elementor elementor-9227\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2abc1d6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2abc1d6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5a2493 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d5a2493\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"Whispering Walls\" by Choman Hardi<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8d123c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f8d123c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-847ddaa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"847ddaa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8784\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whispering Walls\" width=\"300\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover-768x1190.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover-991x1536.jpg 991w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover-1321x2048.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Whispering-Walls-cover.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Choman Hardi, <em>Whispering Walls<\/em> (Afsana Press, 2023). <\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the tense weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, three siblings\u2014two in London, one in Slemani\u2014recall their troubled past. They have a complex history, from Kurdistan to the Diaspora. Each sibling confronts their ghosts and tragedies in their own way.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Choman Hardi<\/strong> is the seventh and youngest child of Kurdish poet Ahmed Hardi. After several stages of forced displacement, she was granted refugee status in England in 1993. She studied at Oxford, London, and Kent universities. Her postdoctoral research saw her return to Kurdistan to document the plight of women survivors of Anfal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whispering Walls&#8221; by Choman Hardi Choman Hardi, Whispering Walls (Afsana Press, 2023). In the tense weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, three siblings\u2014two in London, one in Slemani\u2014recall their troubled past. They have a complex history, from Kurdistan to the Diaspora. Each sibling confronts their ghosts and tragedies in their own way. 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