Farrah Sarafa
Encyclopedia
Farrah Sarafa is an American
poet, professor, editor and translator based in Manhattan
. Born to a Palestinian
Muslim
mother and an Iraq
i Christian
father, she attended the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor and later learned Tibetan
and traveled to China
. She was drawn to Columbia University
by Edward Said
and obtained her master's there in Comparative Literature, French and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MEALAC).
She has been published in several literary journals, such as Tablets, Arabesques and the Litchfield Review, and continues to work as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for Green & Save News, The Struggle and The Chaldean News. She teaches humanities at various Manhattan based schools and she won a Hopwood Poetry Award , and she has also published one poetry book.
Not being able to visit her ancestral homes, she manages to express and explore ways to battle the oppression she feels through fiction, so she can access the intimates of her Palestinian-Iraqi homelands.
She has won a number of awards and prizes for her poetry.
United States
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poet, professor, editor and translator based in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
. Born to a Palestinian
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
mother and an Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
father, she attended the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in Ann Arbor and later learned Tibetan
Tibetan language
The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
and traveled to China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. She was drawn to Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
by Edward Said
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
and obtained her master's there in Comparative Literature, French and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MEALAC).
She has been published in several literary journals, such as Tablets, Arabesques and the Litchfield Review, and continues to work as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for Green & Save News, The Struggle and The Chaldean News. She teaches humanities at various Manhattan based schools and she won a Hopwood Poetry Award , and she has also published one poetry book.
Not being able to visit her ancestral homes, she manages to express and explore ways to battle the oppression she feels through fiction, so she can access the intimates of her Palestinian-Iraqi homelands.
She has won a number of awards and prizes for her poetry.
Work
- "Mediterranean Lattice: Eastern Shadows over Western Mirage"
- "Paris in the Day"'
- Father Iraq, Mother Palestine
- Olive
- Munich
- Palestine Fig
- Untitled
- Blood, Sand and Tears of a Young Boy
- War Fire
- The Dead Sea
- Colonizing Recipes