A Review of The Iraqi Nights A contemporary Scheherazade caught between Baghdad and America. by John Repp June 7, 2017 at 12:45 PM This collection’s title sequence sets its tone: “While shopping for a gift for her lover, Tammuz, a ...
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Newsweek picks “The Beekeeper” as one of 2018’s best books
IN THE MAGAZINE CULTURE THE 50 COOLEST BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER: 2018’S BEST FICTION AND NON-FICTION (SO FAR) BY MARY KAYE SCHILLING ON 5/23/18 AT 3:17 PM HENRIK SORENSEN/GETTY SHARE CULTURE It’s June, almost halfway through the year, ...
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mikhail mikhail EDITORS’ CHOICE 8 New Books We Recommend This Week Image May 3, 2018 If prison holds a dark mirror to society — reflecting our fissures and anxieties and our blinkered faith in institutional bureaucracy — then prison ...
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HOME | MAY 2018 | MAY 2018 BOOK REVIEWS The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail Author: Dunya Mikhail Translator: Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail New York. New Directions. 2018. 240 ...
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SECTIONSHOMESEARCHSKIP TO CONTENTSKIP TO NAVIGATIONVIEW MOBILE VERSION BOOK REVIEW|Like a Schindler for Iraq, This Unlikely War Hero Freed Women From ISIS Share Tweet Pin Email More Save mikhailSETTINGS BOOK REVIEW | NONFICTION Like a Schindler for Iraq, ...
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English Deutsch عربي Non-fiction: Dunya Mikhailʹs “The Beekeeper” Rescuing the stolen women In a harrowing compilation of true stories charting the fate of women abducted by IS in Iraq, Dunya Mikhail shows how the best of ...
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ABOUT LEADERSHIP FELLOWS NEWS APPLICANTS DUNYA MIKHAIL Current Fellow Fellow: Awarded 2018 Field of Study: Poetry Competition: US & Canada Website: https://dunyamikhailpoet.com/ Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq (Baghdad) and came to the United States thirty years ...
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BOOKS BOOK REVIEWS Poet and Iraqi exile Dunya Mikhail’s book ‘The Beekeeper’ serves as testimony for the victims of ISIS She devotes much of ‘The Beekeeper’ to transcribing the stories of the Yazidi women of northern Iraq who have ...
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THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #128: DUNYA MIKHAIL BY EMILY ROBBINS March 22nd, 2018 I first became aware of Dunya Mikhail through her poem “The Iraqi Nights,” translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. The poem begins: In the first year of ...
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BOOKS Genocide and the Benevolence of ‘The Beekeeper’ JENNY BHATT USING TECHNIQUES APPLIED IN HIS WORK, AN IRAQI BEEKEEPER RESCUED YAZIDI AND CHRISTIAN MINORITY WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM DAESH DURING THE RECENT SINJAR MASSACRES. THE BEEKEEPER: ...
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