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Introduction by Debra Sweet.
Speaker: Hala Alyan, Palestinian-American poet
Thursday August 14
Cooper Union, NYC
Organized by The World Can’t Wait
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Filmed and edited by Deep Dish TV
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Running time: 6 minutes
HALA ALYAN is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist.

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“The least you can do is watch”–
A lioness, indeed.
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Listen to this more than once. It is beyond powerful! Thank you, Hala
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Oh yes, Hala is magnificent. A lioness.
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Listen to this more than once. It is beyond powerful! Thank you, Hala
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