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 ...

  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 ...

  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 ...

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    Tablets IV BY DUNYA MIKHAIL 1   I wanted to write an epic about suffering, but when I found a tendril of her hair among the ruins of her mud house, I found my epic there.     ...

  The Stranger in Her Feminine Sign BY DUNYA MIKHAIL Everything has gender in Arabic. History is male. Fiction is female. Dream is male. Wish is female.   Feminine words are followed by a circle with two dots over. They ...

  Day 6 with Brent Bambury VISIT WEBSITE SHARE SHOW 09:39 How an Iraqi farmer risked it all to rescue dozens of Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS May 11, 2018 Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail’s new book The Beekeeper highlights the ...

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  LITERARY HUB   When War Destroyed My Grandmother’s Grave   IN IRAQ, WAR COMES WITH VARIOUS NAMES VIA NEW DIRECTIONS Share: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)28 Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to ...