Today. My name is bethany allen. Abrahimian. Im the china reporter at axios and im here today at Hudson Institute to speak with nuri terkel a senior fellow here at hudson about his new book which we have right here called no escape and let me first introduce nuri he is a senior fellow here. He is a lawyer. He is vice chair of the Us Commission on International Religious freedom, and he is cofounder of the wieger human rights project. He is one of the most prominent people who has been speaking out about the weeger situation that we go repression and the weaker genocide in china for years, and im thrilled today. Be able to talk to him about his book learn more about his his life story his his hard work the challenges that he has faced and what he sees Going Forward for the uighur people. So, thank you so much for joining us today nouri. Thank you very much for coming to have this conversation with me, bethany. I would first like to ask you about the book project itself. How did it get s
Lawyer, vice chair of the u. S. Commission on International Religion freedom and cofounder of the human rights project. One of the most prominent people who have been speaking out about the uighur situation and genocide in china for years. Tas book learn more about his his life story his his hard work the challenges that he has faced and what he sees Going Forward for the uighur people. So, thank you so much for joining us today nouri. Thank you very much for coming to have this conversation with me, bethany. I would first like to ask you about the book project itself. How did it get started . When did you start thinking of writing a book and how did it come to be . Thank you. If i may id like to begin by thanking my colleagues sarah here at hudson institute. And leadership and the support team professional staff. For sharing their knowledge and supporting my work over the year. Ive been been very pleased to have this opportunity to work with at world class scholars at hudson the idea
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In man, isnt there something more primal, something innate in man that reaches out to the other, even before he becomes selfconscious about anything around him . Give me an example. Thats a good point. Well, say, an uneducated man, that he would see the sun, and then when we looks around, and he thinks, thats something other than whats around here; that must be something importan im glad you brought that up, because selfconsciousness is a difficult term and it may mean Different Things to different people. I think im saying something more along the line of what youre saying, that whenever it happened 50,000 years ago, 100,000 years ago the first time a human says, im here; theres the sun. That thing from 2001, remember that old movie . I wasnt born then but people told me about it. But, these sort of apelike creatures looking at the monolith and theyre going and then they start beating each other up i dont know what that meant; never did. But yeah, thats more what im talking about its