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SUMMARY:“POETRY AND MUSIC FROM IRAQ”
DESCRIPTION:MICHIGAN\n\nReading\, Musical Performance\n\n2013 Kresge Artist
  Fellow and Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail has six books in Arabic\, t
 hree in English\, and one in Italian. She left her country and arrived in 
 Detroit in 1996 in order to write freely.\n\nHer multi-media presentation 
 starts with a reception and combines a reading\, songs\, images\, short f
 ilm and oud playing. A question and answer session and book signing will 
 follow. Collaborators include Alise Alousi\, Hasan Hamid\, Susie Ibarra\, 
 Nashwan Pola\, and Jeannie Vanasco.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nSPONSORED BY ARAB AMERIC
 AN NATIONAL MUSEUM and MESOPOTAMIAN SOCIETY\n\nDunya Mikhail was born in I
 raq in 1965 and came to the United States in 1996. She has six books in Ar
 abic\, three in English\, and one in Italian. They include The Iraqi Nigh
 ts\, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea\, and The War Works Hard. She also 
 edited a pamphlet of Iraqi poetry titled 15 Iraqi Poets. Her Arabic books
  are published in Egypt\, Iraq\, Lebanon\, Syria\, and Tunisia. Her books 
 in English are published in New York by New Directions. They are translate
 d into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Elizabeth Winslow\, and into I
 talian by Elena Chiti. Her honors include the Kresge Fellowship\, Arab Ame
 rican Book Award\, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom o
 f Writing. The War Works Hard was shortlisted for Griffin\, and named on
  of “Twenty-Five Books to Remember from 2005” by the New York Public L
 ibrary. She is the co-founder of the Mesopotamian Forum for Art and Cultur
 e in Michigan. She currently works as an Arabic special lecturer at Oaklan
 d University in Michigan.\n\nTo see more work by Dunya Mikhail\, visitwww.
 dunyamikhail.com.\n\nTop Right Photo Credit: Cary Loren\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Art/Visual,Poetry
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