BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30811@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230417T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230417T213000 DTSTAMP:20230404T022243Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/a-reading-and-conversation-with-mos ab-abu-toha/ SUMMARY:A Reading and Conversation with Mosab Abu Toha DESCRIPTION:\n\nNew York\, NY\n\nMOSAB ABU TOHA is a Palestinian poet\, sch olar\, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. A graduate in English language teaching and literature\, he taught English a t the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Gaza from 2016 until 2019\, and is the founder of the Edward Said Library\, Gaza’s first English-language library.\n\nIn 2019-2020\, Abu Toha was a Visiting Poet in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University\; a Visiting Librarian at Harvard’s Houghton Library\; and a Religion\, Co nflict\, and Peace Initiative Fellow in the Harvard Divinity School. In 20 20\, Abu Toha gave talks and readings at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, and the University of Arizona. He also spoke at the Am erican Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting held in Philadelphia in January 2020. In October 2021\, University of Notre Dame’s Literatures\ ,Annihilation\, Exile\, and Resistance lecture series hosted Abu Toha to s peak about his poetry and work in Gaza. Abu Toha is a columnist for Arrows mith Press\, and his writings from Gaza have appeared in The Nation\, Arro wsmith Press\, and Literary Hub. His poems have been published on the Poet ry Foundation’s website\, in Poetry Magazine\, Banipal\, Solstice\, The Markaz Review\, The New Arab\, Peripheries\, and other journals.\n\nCo-spo nsored by:\n\nHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\n\nNYU Tisch Performance Studies\n\nTisch Institute of Performing Arts\n\nThe NYU Crea tive Writing Program\n\nNYU Department of English (Postcolonial Race &\ ; Diaspora Studies and Some Contemporary Poetries)\n\n\n \;\n\n\nAlso check out other Arts Events in New York\, Literary Art Events in New Yor k\, Performances in New York.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-03-at-10.21.52-PM.png CATEGORIES:Discussion,Live Reading LOCATION:Dean's Conference Room\, 721 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, United Sta tes GEO:40.729526;-73.993844 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=721 Broadway\, New York\, N Y\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dean's Conference Room:geo:40 .729526,-73.993844 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR