Syrian-Irish writer Suad Aldarra has been awarded the 2024 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her memoir I Don’t Want to Talk About Home, written about her experience of fleeing her war-torn home ...

Suad Aldarra has been announced as the recipient of the £8,340 (€10,000) Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. The prize celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years ...

The author, in describing familiar struggles against a backdrop of civil war and migration, will make readers pause and think: ‘That could be me’ Journey: Suad Aldarra tells a familiar human story ...

Doubleday Ireland has triumphed in a three-way auction for Suad Aldarra’s “powerful” memoir I Don’t Want To Talk About Home. Editorial director Fiona Murphy acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from ...

I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime. Growing up in conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled by the strictures placed on women. She yearned for the vibrant Syrian ...

For Syrian-Irish writer Suad Aldarra, the possibility of returning home to the Syrian capital of Damascus finally feels real again, after rebels ousted the government of President Bashar al-Assad ...

Data scientist Suad Aldarra is currently trying to understand and highlight the role traditional media is having in stoking fears about refugees. The online world in which many of us spend a large ...

In The Irish Times this Saturday, in an extract from her memoir, I Don’t Want to Talk About Home, data scientist Suad Aldarra recalls her early days in Galway, where she and her husband settled after ...