Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:18:21 EDT
Subject: Contemporary Arab Women's Poetry NYC 4/27


On Friday April 27th, 2001 from 5-7pm 

The American Studies Group & 
The Middle East/Middle Eastern American Center 

Present a Discussion of the transnational anthology: 

THE POETRY OF ARAB WOMEN 
(Interlink Books 2000) 

By Nathalie Handal (editor) 

Readings by featured poets: 
D.H Melhem and Suheir Hammad 

Please join us in room 5414 at the CUNY Graduate Center
On 5th Avenue between 35th and 34th Street 

Email zsaed-AT-gc.cuny.edu for more information. 

***Copies of the book will be available!*** 

Comments about the book: 

"An astonishing, huge accomplishment! This anthology, beginning with 
Nathalie Handal's large and nuanced opening essay, demolishes stereotypes and 
allows the whole world to see and hear the powerful complexity and longing 
that these poets so memorably articulate. Here we may meet and marvel at 83 
Arab women poets... from the visionary, elder Lebanese poet Etel Adnan, to 
the Lebanese American young poet Dima Hilal... this is an incredible, 
international gathering of Arab women poets writing from the first quarter of 
the 20th century through now..." 
June Jordan


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