This review of Tahir Hamut Izgil‘s Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide was published in the Observer on 13 August 2023 A group of Uyghur friends are having a late-night chat. “I wish the Chinese would just conquer the world,” one says suddenly. “Why do you say that?” another asks, surprised. “The world doesn’t care what happens to us,” the first man replies. “Since we can’t have freedom anyway, let the whole world taste subjugation. […]

Categories: Culture & Books, International • Tags: china, tahir hamut izgil, uyghurs