March 3, 2021, 7 PM on Zoom
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Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Dunya Mikhail worked as a translator and journalist for the Baghdad Observer before being placed on Saddam Hussein’s enemies list. She came to the United States in the mid-1990s. She is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections in English. In 2018, she released her debut book of nonfiction, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, the story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh (ISIS). Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She lives and teaches in Michigan.
Grub Street, Towson University’s literary magazine, features one of her poems in Arabic and English. This event is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Martha A. Mitten Endowment, and the Towson Literary Reading Series.
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