Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
@amrasabicphd
Working on preventing hate. Author of critically acclaimed THE CAT I NEVER NAMED (2020) & THREE SUMMERS (2024). Views are my own. Retweet/Like ≠ endorsement.
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Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, a Columbia University professor, addressed the effects of cultural violence & hate in classrooms at the #WordsMatter event in Oslo today. Columbia University Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Ndileka_Mandela The Oslo Center Norway MFA Gjermund Saether DIRCO South Africa Muslim World League Unitas Communications
Teachers, librarians, and parents looking for middle grade books that will spark powerful conversations will want to pick up a copy Three Summers, an epic middle-grade memoir from author, activist, and Bosnian genocide survivor Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess: buff.ly/3YBjLDa
I had a wonderful day Columbia University Univ. Today for the first ever interfaith workshop hosted by the International Interfaith Research Lab at Teacher’s College (led by Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess). I learned so much, met so many interesting people & — after a troubled year — it gave me some hope.
"This moving and deeply personal story is framed in a way that makes the larger political, religious, and ethnic complexities accessible. Simultaneously candid and heartbreaking" - Kirkus Reviews #ThreeSummers
#Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek THREE SUMMERS: A MEMOIR OF SISTERHOOD, SUMMER CRUSHES, + GROWING UP ON THE EVE OF THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE by Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess w/ Laura L. Sullivan (Farrar/MacKids Books), which our reviewer called a "vividly told and moving memoir" hbook.com/story/review-o…