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SUMMARY:NGP Talks with Susan Muaddi Darraj
DESCRIPTION:Susan Muaddi Darraj’s (NGP Member) short story collection\, A Curious Land: Stories from Home\, was named the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction\, judged by Jaime Manrique. It also won the 2016 Arab American Book Award\, a 2016 American Book Award\, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. Her previous short story collection\, The Inheritance of Exile\, was published in 2007 by University of Notre Dame Press.\nIn 2018\, she was named a Ford Fellow by USA Artists. Susan also is a two-time recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has also been awarded a Ruby’s Artist Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation.\n\nIn 2019\, she launched the viral #TweetYourThobe social media campaign to promote Palestinian culture. Later that year\, she was named winner of the Rose Nader Award\, by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)\, an award given by the Nader family to a person who “demonstrates an unwavering dedication and commitment to values of equality and justice.”\nIn January 2020\, Capstone Books launched her debut children’s chapter book series\, Farah Rocks\, about a smart\, brave Palestinian American girl named Farah Hajjar.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/10995/
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SUMMARY:Readings & Conversations with Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture with Laila Lalami\, novelist\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and author of The Moor’s Account and The Other Americans. \nLAILA LALAMI was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She is the author of four novels\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller\, a best-of-2019 selection from NPR\, Time\, and Kirkus\, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. In fall 2020\, she will release Conditional Citizens\, a nonfiction exploration of how the rights\, liberties\, and protections of American citizenship are not always uniformly applied.
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