Remembering Anthony Shadid: London & Paris Launches

To celebrate the launch of Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone Granta is hosting the following events in Paris and London:

3 September 7:30 p.m. at Shakespeare & Co, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris

Granta’s John Freeman presents House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid, who passed away earlier this year. John will be in discussion with one of France’s most acclaimed writers, Amin Maalouf; Shadid’s colleague from the Washington Post, Ed Cody; journalist Katia Jarjoura, and Jihane Chouaib, the director of the documentary Dream Country. House of Stone ‘. . . offers a powerful reminder of the impact that never-ending insecurity has on people long after the violence that ruined their lives has been forgotten by the rest of the world.’ New York Times

4 September 7.30 p.m., The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ. £12.50, tickets are on sale here.

Anthony Shadid spent most of his professional career covering the Middle East, first for the Associated Press; then The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and finally The New York Times - for which he was working when he died in February this year while crossing the border out of Syria. At this special event we will be joined by friends and colleagues of Anthony Shadid to remember the life and work of this most esteemed journalist. The panel includes Nada Bakri (New York Times reporter and wife of Anthony Shadid), Jon Lee Anderson (author, international investigative reporter and staff writer for The New Yorker), Jonathan Rugman (foreign affairs correspondent at Channel 4 News) and Kareem Fahim (Middle East reporter for The New York Times).

You can also read a series of reflections on going home by Teju Cole, A.L. Kennedy and others in memory of Shadid, a guide to Lebanese street food, and a photographer’s memoir of working with Shadid in Iraq.

House of Stone is available now from Granta Books.