# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Loubna Mrie: Journalist, author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Oct, 2026 at 04:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for a conversation with Loubna Mrie, Syrian Arab journalist and author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria (2026), an astonishing true story of revolt and non-conformity from a young woman raised to be loyal to a brutal regime, at unimaginable cost. 

As a journalist, photographer, and frequent commentator on Syrian and Middle Eastern affairs, Mrie has published in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and The New Arab.

4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 29
University at Albany 
Recital Hall, UAlbany Performing Arts Center
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222 

Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale. A signing will follow the conversation.

Cosponsored by the Journalism Program of the University at Albany Department of Communication.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/albany/loubna-mrie-journalist-author-of-defiance-a-memoir-of-awakening-rebellion-and-survival-in-syria/200030829566936
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Albany
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: University At Albany
- **lat**: 42.6898399
- **long**: -73.8241
- **full address**: University At Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222-0100, United States

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