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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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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foreword reviews /the-beekeeper/ THE BEEKEEPER RESCUING THE STOLEN WOMEN OF IRAQ Dunya Mikhail Max Weiss (Translator) New Directions (Mar 27, 2018) Softcover $16.99 (240pp) 978-0-8112-2612-7 The Beekeeper is Dunya Mikhail’s haunting account of Abdullah, who devoted his life to ...
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BookTrib Review: ‘The Beekeeper’ Highlights Perseverance, Bravery and Strength
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View Full Version of PW.com » BEST BOOKS AUTHORS PUBLISHERS WEEKLY The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq Dunya Mikhail, trans. from the Arabic by Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ...
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THE BEEKEEPER Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail ; translated by Max WeissDunya Mikhail BUY NOW FROM AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE LOCAL BOOKSELLER KIRKUS REVIEW An Iraqi journalist and poet long resident in New York returns to ...
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Books Poet Dunya Mikhail fled Iraq — but still carries home with her By Ron Charles February 23, 2016 Dunya Mikhail’s life straddles the divide of exile. It’s a divide reflected in the structure of her celebrated memoir, “Diary of ...
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Reading Dunya Mikhail’s New Book on Daesh’s Survivors BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 24, 2017 • ( 2 ) This year, poet Dunya Mikhail (Iraqi Nights, The War Works Hard) published a work of nonfiction about women’s lives under Daesh, In the Market of ...
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In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I’ve long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I’ve ...
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