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<font size="7" face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-size: 30pt;">Poetry, Politics, and
the Question of Palestine</span></font><br></div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p style="text-align: center;" align="center">
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="5" face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">A Reading and Conversation with </span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span><font size="6" face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Fady</span></font></span><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> Joudah and Hayan Charara</span></font><br>
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</span></font><span><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Fady</span></font></span><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Joudah</span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and
physician, who lives in Houston,
Texas. He is the author of <i><span style="font-style: italic;">The Earth in the Attic</span></i> (Yale UP, 2008) and
the translator of Mahmoud Darwish, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">The
Butterfly's Burden</span></i> (Copper
Canyon, 2008).<br>
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</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hayan Charara</span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is a poet, translator, editor, and
teacher. He is the author of <i><span style="font-style: italic;">The Sadness of
Others</span></i> (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2006), <i><span style="font-style: italic;">The
Alchemist's Diary</span></i> (Hanging Loose Press, 2001), and the editor of <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab
American Poetry</span></i> (University
of Arkansas
Press, 2008).</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="5" face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Friday March 13, 12PM<br>
Interdisciplinary Building North, Room 2043</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="5" face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Light refreshments will
be served</span></font></p>
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</div>-- <br>~~~~~<br>Ching-In Chen<br>THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)<br><a href="http://www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp">www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp</a><br><a href="http://www.chinginchen.com">www.chinginchen.com</a><br>