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:32173@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240207T200000 DTSTAMP:20240201T212350Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/writers-for-palestine-awp-offsite/ SUMMARY:Writers for Palestine: AWP Offsite DESCRIPTION:\nAbout this event\n\nTo kick off AWP 2024\, join us in centeri ng Palestine in our hearts and minds at an offsite reading at the Kansas C ity Art Institute.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo kick off AWP 2024\, join us in centering Palestine in our hearts and minds at an offsite reading at the Kansas City Art Institute\, presented by Mizna and copresented with RAWI\, Al-Had af\, and WAWOG.\n\nFeatured readers include Issam Zineh\, Kamelya Omayma Youssef\, Abdelrahman ElGendy\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, Zeyn Joukhadar\, Wil lie Nour\, Mona Kareem\, Moheb Soliman\, Andrea Abi-Karam\, Elina Katrin\, Kazim Ali\, and more.\n\nThe event will take place at the Kansas City Art Institute’s Epperson Auditorium\, which is located within Vanderslice H all on campus. Doors will open at 6:30 and space is limited. We strongly e ncourage RSVPing\, but walk-ins will be welcome if space is available.\n\n We also invite you to visit Mizna and RAWI at the AWP bookfair (booth # 14 31)\, at the Arab American Caucus on Friday\, or at our Saturday featur ed event with Iman Mersal and Noor Naga.\n\nABOUT THE READERS\n\nIssam Zi neh is a Palestinian-American poet and scientist and author of Unceded La nd (Trio House Press\, 2022)\, finalist for the Medal Provocateur\, Housat onic Book Award\, and Balcones Prize. His poems appear in AGNI\, Guernica\ , The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. He lives and benefits from being a settler o n Paskestikweya land.\n\nKamelya Omayma Youssef is the author of A book w ith a hole in it (Wendy’s Subway\, 2022). Her homes are Dearborn\, Baalb ek\, South Lebanon\, and Brooklyn\, and she currently teaches at The New S chool. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime.\n\nAbdelrah man ElGendy is an Egyptian writer whose work engages with counter-narrati ves of history as a form of resistance to erasure. A Dietrich fellow at th e University of Pittsburgh’s Nonfiction Writing MFA\, his work appears i n The Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, AGNI\, Truthout\, Mada Masr and e lsewhere.\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. S he is the author of three books\, Water &\; Salt\, winner of the 2018 W ashington State Book Award\, Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House\, 2023)\, an d Something About Living\, winner of the 2022 Akron Prize\, from Universit y of Akron Press. She was the curator of the 2022 translation series Poems from Palestine for the Baffler magazine. In 2024 she is editing the serie s Palestinian Voices for Words Without Borders. To learn more about her wo rk\, visit her web site www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com\n\nZeyn Joukhadar is t he author of the Lambda Literary- and Stonewall Book Award-winning novel T he Thirty Names of Night and The Map of Salt and Stars. His work has appea red in Electric Literature\, Salon\, Mizna\, and elsewhere. Joukhadar serv es on the RAWI board and mentors writers of color with the Periplus Collec tive.\n\nWillie Nour is a queer Palestinian poet and playwright. Born to a Christian family in Nazareth after their village of Almujaydel was bulld ozed during the 1948 Nakba. His work appears in Mizna and pending antholog y Ask the Night for a Dream\, by Palestine Writes Press. Willie lives with his husband of 28 years in south Minneapolis. In his life and in his writ ing he seeks truths in his connections with other animate and inanimate ob jects. So far he has seen glimpses but the truth remains illusive.\n\nMona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. Her poetry has been tr anslated into English by Sara El-Kamel and published under the title I Wil l Not Fold These Maps by the Poetry Translation Center in London. She is a recipient of a 2021 literary grant from the National Endowment for the Ar ts. She is an assistant professor of Arabic Literature at Washington Unive rsity St. Louis. She held fellowships and residencies with Princeton Unive rsity\, Tufts University\, Poetry International\, Arab-American National M useum\, Norwich Center\, and Forum Transregionale Studien. Her translation s include Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within (nominated for a BTBA awar d)\, Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s Except for this Unseen Thread\, and an Arabic translation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred.\n\nMoheb Soliman is an interdi sciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented work at literar y\, art\, and public spaces in North America and abroad with support from diverse institutions. His critically recognized debut poetry collection\, HOMES\, explores nature\, modernity\, identity\, belonging\, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion/borderland.\n\nAndrea Abi-K aram is a trans\, SWANA\, punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019)\; Villainy (Nightbo at Books\, Sept 2021)\, and with Kay Gabriel\, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books\, 2020). They are currently writing a poet's novel.\n\nElina Katrin is the author of t he poetry chapbook\, If My House Has a Voice (Newfound\, 2023). A Syrian-R ussian immigrant\, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins Unive rsity. Her poetry was selected as a semi-finalist for The Pablo Neruda Pri ze for Poetry and has appeared in Electric Lit\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewh ere. She likes to bake\, video chat her dog back home\, and go on daily wa lks.\n\nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnatio nally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East . His books encompass multiple genres\, including several volumes of poetr y\, novels\, and translations. He is currently a Professor of Literature a t the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of h is Canadian childhood\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of W ater.\n\nTariq Luthun demands an end to the siege on Gaza and the illegal military occupation of Palestine\, from the river to the sea. A Palestini an in diaspora based in metro Detroit on Anishinaabe land\, Tariq is a com munity organizer\, data engineer\, and award–winning poet calling for th e right of return and land back for indigenous peoples globally. Luthun ea rned his MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, and c urrently serves as a board member of The Offing.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-01-at-4.22.46-PM.png LOCATION:Epperson Auditorium\, 4415 Warwick Boulevard\, Kansas City \, MO\, 64111\, United States GEO:39.04689;-94.582877 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4415 Warwick Boulevard\, Ka nsas City \, MO\, 64111\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Epperso n Auditorium:geo:39.04689,-94.582877 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR