Dima Nasser
@dima_a_nasser
PhD candidate, Arabic & Comparative Literature @brownuniversity • translator • editor @ArabWomenAntho (2017) • full-time juggler • 🇱🇧 • عالهدا
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News: Poet Mosab Abu Taha Mosab Abu Toha has been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers. He wrote this poem last year reflecting on his childhood under Israeli military occupation. He published it recently as he watches his kids experience the same brutality. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
Journalist Yara El Murr (Yara) has been named Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year 2023 at the Foreign Press Association in London Media Awards for her work with The Public Source. She dedicated her award to the courageous Palestinian journalists in Gaza and spoke out bravely and
New England friends! Come to a reading for my debut YA novel, "Roots of the Banyan Tree." I'll be in conversation with special guest Dima Nasser 1/22/24 Belmont Books and 2/6/24 at Brown University Bookstore. kathrynsilverhajo.com/so/93Oplbiqy?l…
New England Friends! Join me Belmont Books next Monday (Jan. 22) at 7 pm for a book reading event for my YA novel "Roots of the Banyan Tree" in conversation with Dima Nasser. Book signing! Wine and snacks! Fun giveaways! kathrynsilverhajo.com/so/77OppzGMc?l…
🔵 Are you an emerging translator? Explore translation methodologies and approaches at our next season of poetry translation workshops starting 5 Feb on Monday evenings, online. Facilitated by Prudencio Aguilar. and @leoboix. 🔵Full info: poetrytranslation.org/workshops
My book reading event Belmont Books on Monday, where Dima Nasser and I discuss issues of identity, love, loss, and displacement and I read from my YA novel about a young girl growing up during the Lebanese civil war and in NYC in the 1970s. kathrynsilverhajo.com/roots-reading-…
The brilliance of this collection is that it forges an ethics of grief that challenges human containment, estranging the act of living from the first person and divorcing lyricism from its habitual “you.” @mirene_arsanios reviews Almallah's Border Wisdom hyperallergic.com/900829/palesti…