Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail — Iraqi-American Poet “When you write a poem in your language, you write it one time. And when you think in the other language, and try to write a poem in the other language, I feel ...

LITERATURE, POETRY THE GYPSY/الغجرية BY DUNYA MIKHAIL “She knows the time/ from the way the roses bend,/ from how far or near the sky is…” Poem of the Week (January 11), by Dunya Mikhail. Translated from Arabic by the poet. ...

Dunya Mikhail contributor Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq in 1965 and came to the United States in 1996.  She has six books in Arabic, three in English, and one in Italian.  They include The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A ...

SPLIT THIS ROCK Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets. The Iraqi Nights, Section 7 By Dunya MikhailIn Iraq, after a thousand and one nights, someone will talk to ...

  Contributor Dunya Mikhail Born in Iraq in 1965, Dunya Mikhail is famous for her subversive, innovative, and satirical poetry. She has published four collections of poetry in Arabic, including The Psalms of Absence, Diary of a Wave Outside the ...

en/nl Poetry International Web IRAQ  Dunya Mikhail (Iraq, 1965)  Nederlands ► © Pieter Vandermeer / Tineke de Lange Friday 15 May 2009 Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad in 1965 and lived there until the authorities considered her poetry to ...

poet Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail is the author of several books, including The Iraqi Nights (New Directions, 2014); Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions, 2009), winner of the 2010 Arab American Book Award for Poetry; and The ...

Dunya Mikhail b. 1965 http://www.dunyamikhail.com/ Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad and earned a BA at the University of Baghdad. She worked as a translator and journalist for the Baghdad Observer before being placed on Saddam Hussein’s ...

The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail The digital map on the wall displays the American wars in colors: Iraq in purple Syria in yellow Kuwait in blue Afghanistan in red Vietnam in green. The war on the map is beautiful ...

The phrase “freedom of expression” is ever on the lips of Iraqi politicians post-2003, Iraqi journalist and author Afrah Shawqi wrote before she was kidnapped. But, acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail asks, what sort of freedom of expression is this? By Dunya ...