Poetry, Prose, and More with Marwa Helal and Malaka Gharib
Changing Forms, Challenging Norms
Location
Online
Poetry, Prose, and More with Marwa Helal and Malaka Gharib – Online Event
Date & Time
May 4, 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Description
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 and the Dresher Center for the Humanities. 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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