<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "> </p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 30pt; ">Poetry, Politics, and the Question of Palestine</span><br><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">A Reading and Conversation with</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; "> </span></p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="il"><span style="font-size: 24pt; ">Fady</span></span><span style="font-size: 24pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Joudah and Hayan Charara</span><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><br><span class="il"><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Fady</span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Joudah</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician, who lives in Houston, Texas. He is the author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Earth in the Attic</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Yale UP, 2008) and the translator of Mahmoud Darwish,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Butterfly's Burden</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Copper Canyon, 2008).<br><br></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Hayan Charara</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a poet, translator, editor, and teacher. He is the author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Sadness of Others</i>(Carnegie Mellon UP, 2006),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Alchemist's Diary</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Hanging Loose Press, 2001), and the editor of<i>Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(University of Arkansas Press, 2008).</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "> </p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 20pt; ">Friday March 13, 12PM<br>Interdisciplinary Building North, Room 2043</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 20pt; "> </span></p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 20pt; ">Light refreshments will be served</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 20pt; "> </span></p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages</span></div><br></div></span></blockquote></div><span></span></body></html>