Tahir Hamut Izgil

Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in the Uyghur language and author of Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide. He grew up in Kashgar, an ancient city in the southwest of the Uyghur homeland. In 2017, as the Chinese government began the mass internment of the Uyghur people, Izgil fled with his family to the United States.