

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life : Evening with Samar Yazbek
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Syrian writer &amp; journalist Samar Yazbek discusses loss, grief and hope against the backdrop of  the ongoing Israeli genocide in Palestine.About this EventThroughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, who have witnessed what history may one day remember as one of the most savage military offensives of our time. Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable loss – homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated – and many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks.But these survivors remain determined to share their stories, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate. The title, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, is adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombing.Please join us to welcome Syrian writer and journalist, Samar Yazbek to Lighthouse for a thought-provoking discussion on loss, grief and hope against the backdrop of the ongoing Israeli siege and genocide in Palestine.The authorSamar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist. She was born in 1970 and studied Arabic literature at Latakia University. Yazbek has been a prominent advocate for human rights and more specifically women’s rights in Syria. In 2011, she took part in the popular uprising against the Assad regime and was forced into exile soon after. In 2010, Yazbek was selected as one of the 39 most promising authors under the age of 40 by Beirut39, organized by the Hay Festival. In 2012 she was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize ‘International writer of courage’ for her book In the Crossfire, and received the Swedish Tucholsky Prize and the Dutch Oxfam/PEN Prize the following year. In 2022, Yazbek was chosen by the Royal Society of Literature as one of twelve International Writers. Yazbek has published two short story collections, seven novels and four non-fiction literary narratives, and has been translated into over twenty languages.
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Festivals
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Edinburgh
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
- **lat**: 55.9445833
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- **full address**: Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Festivals
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