This year's International Writers Project fellow, Nihad Sirees, whose new book, The Silence and the Roar, bears witness to a fictionalized version of his native country, Syria. While in London for the launch of the book, Nihad Sirees was interviewed by CNN -- see an edited version of that interview at CNN.com  Exiled Syrian Writer:  Why I Fled

To learn more about Nihad Sirees and the International Writers Project, click on to IWP at Brown University.