Loading ...Words for Palestine – December
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Date(s) - 12/12/2024
7:00 pm
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Cost:
USD
Contact Person:
Rewa Zeinati
Email:
rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
Website:
https://arabamericanmuseum.org/event/words-for-palestine-december/?event_date=2024-12-12&mc_cid=f45590615b&mc_eid=813ccc588e
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Organization:
Arab American National Museum
7 p.m. ET Thursday, December 12, 2024
Words for Palestine
Online via livestream
Free with RSVP
Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers include Mosab Hamid, Marilyn Hacker, Lena Mabsutina, Maya Salameh and Deema Shihabi.
“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society, Mizna, Palestine Writes and RAWI, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza.
For questions, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
About the Readers
Mosab Hamid is a multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York. Their work has been recognized by Wesleyan University, The National YoungArts Foundation, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, among others. Inspired by a world wrought with palpable contradiction and conflict, Mosab’s written work seeks to find solace, respite, release, and even joy in the mess.
Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of poems, most recently Calligraphies (Norton, 2023), and co-author of two collaborations , DiaspoRenga, written with Deema K. Shehabi (Holland Park Press, 2013) and A Different Distance , written with Karthika Naïr ( Milkweed Editions, 2021). Her translations include Samira Negrouche’s The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Claire Malroux’s Daybreak, both published in 2020, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s The Water People, published in 2018.
Lena Mubsutina is the author of Amreekiya, an Arab American Book Award winner, a finalist for the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, and one of Foreword’s “Four Phenomenal Debut Novels.” Her work has appeared in Sukoon, A Gathering Together, and The Offing, among others, and she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.
Maya Salameh is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and the chapbook rooh, the Debut Series winner from Paper Nautilus Press. She has served as a National Student Poet, America’s highest honor for youth poets, and earned fellowships and support from the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Breadloaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. Her poems appear in Poetry, The Rumpus, The Offing, Muzzle, AGNI, Mizna, and the LA Times, among others. She can be found @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com.
Deema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian-American poet, writer, and editor. Deema is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received a Northern California Book Award. She’s also co-author of Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker and winner of the Nazim Hikmet poetry competition in 2018. Deema’s work has also appeared in poets.org, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry London, and Kenyon Review, to name a few.
