Events

“A Conversation with poet/novelist Dunya Mikhail”

Monday, April 24 |12:20 – 1:10 pm 

New West Room 103 or online here

UNC – Chapel Hill

*Conversation will be in Arabic

All are welcome to join a conversation with Iraqi poet & novelist Dunya Mikhail in the advanced Arabic class “Performing Arts in the Arab world”.  After graduating from the University of Baghdad, Mikhail worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. New Directions published her books The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of I_raq_, The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea, and The War Works Hard—chosen as one the New York Public Library’s Books to Remember in 2005—as well as her edited volume, 15 Iraqi Poets. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Knights Foundation grant, a Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, and works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan

View Mikhail’s poem “The War works hard”

Also, on YouTube is a documentary about Dunya Mikhail

Sponsored by the NC Consortium for Middle East Studies, UNC Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies, and UNC Department of Asian & Middle East Studies