Farrah Sarafa
| Farrah Sarafa | |
|---|---|
| File:Farrah sarafa at british airways & visitbritain.pngFarrah sarafa at british airways & visitbritain.png Sarafa in 2019 | |
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Columbia University University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 💼 Occupation | Poet, Academic, Editor |
| 👔 Employer | Pace University |
| Known for | Poetry, Fractyll Magazine |
| Notable work | Distortion and Desire 2006 poetry book |
Farrah Sarafa is an Arab-American poet, scholar, writer, and professor based in Manhattan, New York City.
Early life and education
Sarafa was born to a Palestinian mother and an Iraqi father, and she grew up in Bloomfield Hills.[1]
She has a master's degree from Columbia University where she studied under Edward Said.[2] She won second place in the Chistell Writing Contest as well as the Hopwood Prize for her poem Olive.[3] She also has a master's degree from University of California, Santa Cruz.[4]
Career and activism
Sarafa is a poet who writes about Palestinian issues, noted for themes of sadness in her writing.[5][6] In 2004, she won The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry.[7]
As an academic, she has taught at Columbia University in New York City where she spoke on the panel "Growing up Iraqi in the United States".[8] As of 2022, she was working as a Professor of Literature and Modern Languages at Pace University.[9]
She founded Fractyll Culture Magazine in 2016.[4]
Selected publications
Academic
- Re-writing Algerian Nationalism Through the Discourse of the Woman was published by the University of California Press, 2006[10]
Books
Poems
- Palestine Fig[12]
- Olive[13][3]
- Let The Land Choose, PalestineInsight, 2016[14]
- The Dead Sea[5]
- Blood, Sand, and Tears of a Young Boy[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Student published poetry work". Chaldean News. September 2006. p. 10.
- ↑ "Learning Your Alif, Ba, Tas". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Sarafa, Farrah". web.archive.org. 2016-08-14. Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2022-07-23.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Farrah Sarafa – Humanities Commons". Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Sodan taide". www.maailmankuvalehti.fi (in suomi). Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ↑ "Sodan taide". KEPA (in Finnish). 4 September 2006. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2011. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Hopwood Newsletter" (PDF). University of Michigan. January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Boston College Front Row - Growing Up Iraqi in the United States". web.archive.org. 2010-06-10. Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2022-07-23.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
- ↑ "Farrah Sarafa at Pace University". www.coursicle.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ↑ Sarafa, Farrah (2006). Re-writing Algerian Nationalism Through the Discourse of the Woman in Assia Djebar's La Fantasia. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 12 May 2020. Search this book on
- ↑ Cox, James A. (June 2006). "MBR Bookwatch, June 2006". Midwest Book Review. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ "Palestine Fig". 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ↑ "Farrah Sarafa, 'Olive'". war-poetry.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ "Farrah Sarafa". Palestine InSight. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
External links
- Farrah Sarafa, NYC Premiere of FARMLAND the movie, Scallywag & Vagabond, 2014
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- University of Michigan alumni
- Writers from Manhattan
- American women poets
- American people of Iraqi-Assyrian descent
- American people of Palestinian descent
- American Arabic writers
- American Arabic-language poets
- Palestinian poets
- Assyrian American
- American people of Iraqi descent
- 21st-century American women
