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Sara Abou Rashed

Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian American poet, storyteller and TEDx speaker. Her works appear in the anthology A Land With A People, 9-12 English Language Arts curriculum from McGraw Hill, and more recently, in ArabLit Quarterly and PoetryMagazine. In 2018, Sara launched her autobiographical one-woman show about immigration and finding home titled, A Map of Myself, which she has performed over 17 times across the US. Born in Syria, Sara graduated from Denison University and is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Michigan.  

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Border Wisdom: Ahmad Almallah at the edge of land, loss and language

In his second collection of poetry, Border Wisdom, Palestinian poet Almallah chronicles his negotiations with English, Arabic, exile, and loss at large—of a tongue, a mother, a home. This powerful collection then becomes the medium through which he re-visits personal memories as well as philosophical and linguistic preoccupations in death’s looming shadow.  “Is death a […]

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In his second collection of poetry, Border Wisdom, Palestinian poet Almallah chronicles his negotiations with English, Arabic, exile, and loss at large—of a tongue, a mother, a home. This powerful collection then becomes the medium through which he re-visits personal memories as well as philosophical and linguistic preoccupations in death’s looming shadow.  “Is death a

74 Years of Nakba: Palestinian Poets Noor Hindi, Mosab Abu Toha & Sara Abou Rashed in Conversation 

May 15th commemorates the Palestinian Nakba of 1948 –Nakba is Arabic for catastrophe—in which over 800,000 Palestinians were displaced and near 600 villages destroyed as a result of the creation of the State of Israel. The following conversation among three Palestinian poets reflects on variations of identity, the aftermath of 1948, the Palestinian diaspora, distance, and the

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May 15th commemorates the Palestinian Nakba of 1948 –Nakba is Arabic for catastrophe—in which over 800,000 Palestinians were displaced and near 600 villages destroyed as a result of the creation of the State of Israel. The following conversation among three Palestinian poets reflects on variations of identity, the aftermath of 1948, the Palestinian diaspora, distance, and the

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