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Mar 9

Francesca Borri with Anna Coren | Kabul Through the Eyes of a Woman War....

Get an insider’s view of life in Kabul, with Francesca Borri and Anna Coren.

By Hong Kong International Literary Festival Ltd

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Starts on Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:00 HKT

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Fringe Club 2 Lower Albert Road hong kong, HKI Hong Kong

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Italian war reporter and journalist Francesca Borri (Syrian Dust) moved to Kabul after the Taliban takeover in October 2021 and is currently one of a handful of foreign correspondents still left in the war-torn city.

She has traveled throughout the country, sharing her days with the Afghans of Kabul who celebrated freedom and development, and the Afghans outside of Kabul, who were rewarded with violence and misery.

Get an insider’s view of life in a complicated country caught between the Taliban and inteƒrnational sanctions, where the median age is 18.4 years and where the taste of war is still on everyone’s lips.

Join Emmy-award winning international correspondent for CNN, Anna Coren, as she brings her own deep knowledge of Afghanistan to this riveting conversation with Francesca to get an insider’s view of life in a complicated country caught between the Taliban and international sanctions, where the median age is 18.4 years and where the taste of war is still on everyone’s lips.

Presented with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture Hong Kong.

Francesca Borri, born in Italy in 1980, is a Middle East based war reporter, currently living in Kabul. A specialist in international law, she worked as a human rights adviser in Palestine followed by a switch to journalism in 2012. She has since written for the Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Il Venerdì di Repubblica.

In 2014 she was shortlisted for the Prix Bayeux-Calvados with a report for Le Monde, and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the European Press Prize for a report from the Maldives, the non-Arab country with the highest per capita number of foreign fighters. She has written and co-authored various books, including Destination Paradise, Exodus, and her next book, The night before. Notes from frontlines, will be out in December 2023.

Anna Coren is an Emmy award winning international correspondent, anchor and filmmaker covering conflict zones, natural disasters and political crises. For the past 14 years she has worked with CNN covering some of the world's biggest news events–from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and Crimea to natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami and devastating typhoons in the Philippines. Her work has won multiple awards including the Royal Television Society (RTS), Asian TV Awards and most recently an Emmy and Gracie (Alliance or Women in Media) for her 2021 coverage of child marriage in Afghanistan, which ultimately led to the rescue of the 9-year-old child bride by a US charity. In 2022 she made her debut as an independent documentary filmmaker with The Noble Guardian about Afghan women's rights activist Mahbouba Seraj.

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Hong Kong International Literary Festival Ltd
Hong Kong International Literary Festival Ltd.
 

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF), founded in 2000, is an annual event held over ten days in autumn, featuring established and emerging writers from around the world in a programme that includes discussions, literary lunches and dinners, workshops, lectures, debates, book signings, and readings.

The stellar list of past HKILF authors includes literary luminaries such as Seamus Heaney, Louis de Bernières, Colm Tóibín, Jung Chang, and Yann Martel.

HKILF is organized and coordinated by Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited, a non-profit, charitable literary arts organization which also manages the annual Young Readers Festival.

HKILF brings writers and book lovers together at events that allow them to share ideas.

Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to attract not just the best authors and thinkers in Asia, but globally. The city that built itself on the exchange of goods, is now also the region’s focal point for the exchange of ideas.

Literature makes us think, it gives us new perspectives. HKILF starts conversations that build a better society.

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