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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/words-for-palestine-december/
SUMMARY:Words for Palestine – December
DESCRIPTION:7 p.m. ET Thursday\, December 12\, 2024\nWords for Palestine\nO
 nline via livestream\nFree with RSVP\n\nJoin our monthly online series “
 Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voic
 es during this devastating time. Featured readers include Mosab Hamid\, Ma
 rilyn Hacker\, Lena Mabsutina\, Maya Salameh and Deema Shihabi.\n\n“Word
 s For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizn
 a\, 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 Chil
 dren’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated 
 to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. wh
 o speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian orga
 nization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and human
 itarian aid in Gaza.\nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@acce
 sscommunity.org\nAbout the Readers\nMosab Hamid is a multidisciplinary art
 ist from Brooklyn\, New York. Their work has been recognized by Wesleyan U
 niversity\, The National YoungArts Foundation\, and The Gordon Parks Found
 ation\, among others. Inspired by a world wrought with palpable contradict
 ion and conflict\, Mosab’s written work seeks to find solace\, respite\,
  release\, and even joy in the mess.\n\n\nMarilyn Hacker is the author of 
 nineteen books of poems\, most recently Calligraphies (Norton\, 2023)\, an
 d co-author of two collaborations \, DiaspoRenga\, written with Deema K. S
 hehabi (Holland Park Press\, 2013) and A Different Distance \, written wit
 h Karthika Naïr ( Milkweed Editions\, 2021). Her translations include Sam
 ira 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.\n\n\nLena Mubsutina is the author of Amreekiya\, an Ara
 b American Book Award winner\, a finalist for the Louise Meriwether First 
 Book Prize\, and one of Foreword’s “Four Phenomenal Debut Novels.” H
 er work has appeared in Sukoon\, A Gathering Together\, and The Offing\, a
 mong others\, and she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.\n\n\nMay
 a Salameh is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (Univ
 ersity 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 fo
 r 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 Institu
 te for Diversity in the Arts. Her poems appear in Poetry\, The Rumpus\, Th
 e Offing\, Muzzle\, AGNI\, Mizna\, and the LA Times\, among others. She ca
 n be found @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com.\n\nDeema K. Shehabi is a Palestin
 ian-American poet\, writer\, and editor. Deema is the author of Thirteen D
 epartures from the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi
  Street Starts Here\, for which she received a Northern California Book Aw
 ard. 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 a
 ppeared in poets.org\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Poetry London\, and K
 enyon Review\, to name a few.
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