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Lamisse Hamouda: "The Shape of Dust"
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, memoirist Lamisse Hamouda chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Shape of Dust. Lamisse co-authored this deeply disturbing account with her father Hazem Hamouda. It chronicles Hazem’s wrongful arrest in Egypt and Lamisse’s desperate 443-day struggle to free him from Tora, one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons. The Shape of Dust won the 2024 National Biography Award.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
The meaning of the book’s title The Shape of Dust
Why Lamisse and Hazem decided to craft The Shape of…
The skinny
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