*REPOST* Changing Forms, Challenging Norms
Poetry, Prose, and More with Marwa Helal and Malaka Gharib
Location
Online
*REPOST* Changing Forms, Challenging Norms – Online Event
Date & Time
May 4, 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Description
Original event post from the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies can be found here.
The program for Arab and Muslim American Studies is hosting its second event of the academic year, Changing Forms, Challenging Norms: Poetry, Prose, and More with Marwa Helal and Malaka Gharib.
The event features writers Marwa Helal and Malaka Gharib who
will share from their multidisciplinary and genre-challenging work.
Their performances will be followed by a brief Q&A with the
moderator before opening the conversation to audience participation.
This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Complete speaker
bios follow. Complete Webex information below.
Malaka Gharib is
a writer, journalist, and cartoonist. She is the author of I Was Their
American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, winner of an Arab American Book Award
and named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Washington Post,
Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Public Library. By day, she works on
NPR’s science desk, covering the topic of global health and development.
Her comics, zines, and writing have been published in NPR, Catapult,
The Seventh Wave Magazine, The Nib, The Believer, and The New Yorker.
She lives in Nashville with her husband, Darren, and her dog, Sheeboo.
(Photo right).
Marwa Helal
is a poet and journalist. She is the author of Ante body (Nightboat
Books, 2022), Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019), the chapbook I
AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN (No Dear, 2017) and a Belladonna
chaplet (2021). Helal is the winner of BOMB Magazine’s Biennial 2016
Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from the Whiting
Foundation, New York Foundation of the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Poets
House, Brooklyn Poets, and Cave Canem, among others. She has presented
her work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Studio Museum in Harlem
and Brooklyn Museum.
Her
work is published in the following anthologies: Bettering American
Poetry 2016, Best American Experimental Writing 2018, Brooklyn Poets
Anthology, Halal If You Hear Me, and BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic.
She has served as editor of The Poetry Project’s Newsletter and is on
the advisory board of The Offing.
Born
in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal currently lives and teaches in Brooklyn,
New York. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New
School and her BA in journalism and international studies from Ohio
Wesleyan University. (Photo left).
Marwa Helal Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan.
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