Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Knights Foundation Grant, Kresge Fellowship, Arab American Book Award, and UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. New Directions published her books ...
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Evening Standard selects “The Beekeeper of Sinjar” as one of the best books of 2018
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Read More »Dunya Mikhail: The modern Sappho of the Middle East
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/dunya-mikhail-modern-sappho-middle-east https://www.theodysseyonline.com/ Dunya Mikhail: The Modern Sappho Of The Middle East Last time we covered an author who is beloved by his native country, both old and young. This time, we cover an author who ...
Read More »“The Beekeeper” in the National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker Page-Turner The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature By The New Yorker 2:30 P.M. Illustration by Joohee Yoon This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2018 National Book Awards. Today, ...
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KUOW.org 94.9SOUND STORIES. SOUND VOICES.NEWSPODCASTSRADIOACTIVECONNECTSearch CREDIT: COURTESY OF CARY LOREN A second life: The poetry of Iraqi-American Dunya Mikhail BY John O’Brien SEP 09, 2018 at 6:04 AM We recorded a unique event last month. The Elliott Bay ...
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amberflora DUNYA MIKHAIL: DRAWING 01/09/2018 Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq (Baghdad) and came to the United States thirty years later. Her books include The Beekeeper of Sinjar, The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea, and ...
Read More »Picked by Leah Sinclair @ Elle magazine
An Extensive List Of Amazing Books By WOC There’s really no excuse not to have read one. BY LEAH SINCLAIR 14/08/2018 AMAZON Good books are relatively easy to find these days – your ...
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Čuvar pčela iz Sinjara Ivana Perić 08.08.2018. 12:53 Svijet Ispiši Foto: ytb prtsc Abdullah Shrem je čovjek iz planina Sinjar, na sjeveru Iraka. Na tom je području više od tri tisuće ljudi, uglavnom muškaraca i starijih, ...
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Review: The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail translated by Max Weiss — The Iraqi Schindler The story of the heroic farmer who, in 2014, set out to rescue dozens of Yazidi women enslaved and brutalised by Isis Review by ...
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