You can edit almost every page by Creating an account. Otherwise, see the FAQ.

Farrah Sarafa

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki


Farrah Sarafa
Farrah sarafa at british airways & visitbritain.png Farrah sarafa at british airways & visitbritain.png
Sarafa in 2019
Born
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🎓 Alma materColumbia University
University of California, Santa Cruz
💼 Occupation
Poet, Academic, Editor
👔 EmployerPace University
Known forPoetry, Fractyll Magazine
Notable workDistortion 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[edit]

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 The University of California, Santa Cruz.[4]

Career and activism[edit]

Sarafa is a poet who writes about Palestinian issues, noted for themes of sadness in her writing.[5][6] In 2004, she won the 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 a Professor of Literature and Modern Languages at Pace University.[9]

She founded Fractyll Culture Magazine in 2016.[4]

Selected publications[edit]

Academic[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Distortion and Desire, Shadow Poetry, 2006, ISBN 9781932447620 [3][1][11]

Poems[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Student published poetry work". Chaldean News. September 2006. p. 10.
  2. "Learning Your Alif, Ba, Tas". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Sarafa, Farrah | Arabesques Review". web.archive.org. 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Farrah Sarafa – Humanities Commons". Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Sodan taide". www.maailmankuvalehti.fi (in suomi). Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. "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)
  7. "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)
  8. "Boston College Front Row - Growing Up Iraqi in the United States". web.archive.org. 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  9. "Farrah Sarafa at Pace University | Coursicle Pace". www.coursicle.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  10. 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
  11. Cox, James A. (June 2006). "MBR Bookwatch, June 2006". Midwest Book Review. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  12. "Palestine Fig". 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  13. "Farrah Sarafa, 'Olive'". war-poetry.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  14. "Farrah Sarafa". Palestine InSight. Retrieved 12 May 2020.

External links[edit]


This article "Farrah Sarafa" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Farrah Sarafa. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.