The Barnard in Washington (BIW) Book Club will meet on Sunday, September 14th, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, location to be forwarded after registration.

The book is by Barnard faculty member Hisham Matar entitled My Friends.  A description from Kirkus Review follows:

Khaled Abd al Hady, the narrator of Matar’s third novel, moved to England for college in 1983, well aware of the risks of encountering people criticizing his homeland. Years earlier, on BBC Arabic World Service radio, he’d heard an allegorical short story by a young Libyan writer, Hosam Zowa, criticizing the Qaddafi regime; shortly after, the Arab announcer reading the story was assassinated. Still, at the prompting of a friend and classmate, Mustafa al Touny, he attends a protest at the Libyan embassy in London and is nearly killed by gunfire from inside the building. “Forever a marked man,” he can’t return home to his parents and sister…