Winner, Arab American National Museum's 2015 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Tahrir Suite is a book-length poem that contemplates immigration, homeland, and diaspora in the twenty-first century. The poem, inspired by recent events in Egypt, cycles through the journey of two Egyptians moving across borders, languages, cultures, landscapes, and political systems while their life in the U.S. diaspora evolves and their home country undergoes revolutionary change.
Written from a perspective and about a place that is virtually unexplored in contemporary American poetry, Tahrir...
Winner, Arab American National Museum's 2015 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Tahrir Suite is a book-length poem that contemplates immigra...