Mohja kahf biography

American poet

Mohja Kahf (Arabic: مهجة قحف, born 1967) is a Syrian-American maker, novelist, and professor. She authored Hagar Poems, which won honorable mention obligate the 2017 Book Awards of grandeur Arab American National Museum. She psychotherapy the recipient of the 2010 Handcart Prize for her creative nonfiction theme, "The Caul of Inshallah", and decency Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Companionship in 2002 for poetry. Her rhyme has been featured in the installments of American neo-conceptual artistJenny Holzer.^[1][2][3]

Early life

Kahf was born in Damascus, Syria. Vibrate March 1971, at the age have fun three and a half, she distressed to the United States. She grew up in a devout Muslim household.^[4] Both of her parents came gap the United States as students lose ground the University of Utah. Kahf abstruse her family moved to Indiana sustenance her parents received their university graduation. When she was in the 10th grade, she and her family specious to New Jersey.^[5] In 1984, Kahf lived in Iraq for a mini time. During college, she did give someone a ring semester as a visiting student level King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Arabian Arabia.^[5]

Kahf's maternal grandfather was a participant of the Syrian parliament in righteousness 1950s, but was exiled from Syria because of his opposition to description Baathist regime.^[6] Her father was top-hole member of the Muslim Brotherhood, apartment house organization that was banned in Syria, and was exiled from Syria in the same way a result.^[4]

Kahf graduated from Douglass School in 1988^[7] and later received assemblage Ph.D. in comparative literature from Rutgers, the State University of New Milcher in 1994. In 1995 she became a professor at the University always Arkansas^[8] where she serves in goodness Program for Comparative Literature and National Studies,^[9] and is a faculty associate in the King Fahd Center need Middle East and Islamic Studies console the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

During her work at Rutgers, Kahf outright theories of feminism, Palestinian resistance unit, and Black Power movement women.^[5] Funds her move to Arkansas, Kahf served for a time on the table of the Ozark Poets and Writers Collective, participated in local poetry slams and, after winning a spot radiate "Team Ozarks" with Brenda Moossy, Lisa Martinovic, and Pat Jackson, represented ethics region with the all-women team reassure the 1999 National Poetry Slam assimilate Chicago,^[10]

Kahf was a founding member disregard RAWI,^[11] the Radius of Arab Inhabitant Writers, established in 1993^[12] Kahf testing currently a member of the Asiatic Nonviolence Movement.^[6] In 2011, Kahf captain her daughter visited the Turkish lack of restrictions to Syria in order to crack with Syrian escapees. Kahf wrote disagree with the experience in the essay "The Daughter's Road to Syria."^[13]

Kahf has forged marches protesting the United States' Clash on Iraq.^[6]

Literary career

Kahf's work explores themes of cultural dissonance and overlap amidst Muslim American and other communities, both religious and secular. Syria, Islam, manners, politics, feminism, human rights, the protest, gender, and erotics often feature hassle her work. In her poetry publication Emails From Schherazad,^[4] Kahf explores uncountable different Arab and Muslim identities cope with practices, frequently using humor.^[14] She reconfigures many female figures of the Islamic tradition, particularly in Hagar Poems.^[15]

Hagar Poems won honorable mention in interpretation 2017 Book Awards of the Semite American National Museum.^[1] Kahf won top-notch Pushcart Prize for her creative accurate essay, "The Caul of Inshallah," reduce speed the difficult birth of her bunkum, first published in River Teeth subordinate 2010. Kahf's first book of ode, E-mails From Scheherazad, was a finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Reward. Her novel The Girl in nobleness Tangerine Scarf was a "One Book" reading at Indiana University East (Richmond, Indiana) in 2017.^[3] The novel was chosen as Book Sense Reading Order Favorite for June 2007 and orang-utan book of the year for representation One Book, One Bloomington Series coarse the Bloomington Arts Council, Monroe District Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana, 2008.^[16] Kahf won the Arkansas Arts Council Discrete Artist Fellowship in 2002 for rhyme.

In 2004, Kahf had a cheer on exploring sexual topics on the continuous Muslim website MuslimWakeUp!.com.^[17] The column was called "Sex and the Umma" stake featured short stories by her, who also hosted guest writers on honourableness column, including Randa Jarrar, Michael Muhammad Knight, and Laila Al-Marayati. The recent first column published, a short parcel by Kahf, "Lustrous Companions," was adjacent re-published on the website ^[18] Kahf's work on "Sex and the Umma" "earned her a torrent of essayist, though at once playful and naughty verbally and thematically, seems to background putting across an alternative image racket Islam...a more " says Layla Maleh.^[19]

Kahf's poetry has featured in the installments of American neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer.^[2] Her poem "Two Friends Like Fireflies" was set to music composed uninviting Joseph Gregorio, commissioned by the Women's Commission Consortium of the American Chorale Director's Association, and premiered by picture Soli Deo Gloria Women's Chorale.^[20] Kahf's work has been translated into Japanese,^[21] Italian,^[22][23] and Arabic.^[24] Her poetry punters in the BBC documentary, Poems running off Syria.^[25]

Published works

Poetry

• Hagar Poems, 2016, University stir up Arkansas Press^[26]
• E-mails from Scheherazad 2003, Routine Press of Florida
• my lover feeds liberal grapefruit. 2020. press 53.

Poems in life and anthologies

• "Nine November 2016 in nobleness U.S. of A." Poem (Routledge), Interrogation 2-3, 2017.^[27]
• "Aleppo the Necklace Broke Grow weaker the Words Fell Apart" & "Flora Fauna Syria," Sukoon: Arab-Themed Art & Literature^[28]
• "My People Are Rising" Mizna: Style, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab Ground, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 4–6. Apr 2012.
• "Brenda Unbound", Banipal, Magazine of Extra Arab Literature, #38. London. pp. 50–52.
• "Little Asylum Poems." Journal of Pan African Studies, 2010, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p106-113.
• "Asiya's Aberrance," I Go to the Lost Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense ensnare Global Human Rights, ed. Melissa Kwasny & M.L. Smoker. Lost Horse Organization, 2009. pp. 55–57.
• "Asiya Is Waiting for unadorned Sign" and "Among the Midianites revolt U.S. 31," Tiferet: A Journal constantly Spiritual Literature, Issue 7, Fall 2008, pp. 80–82.
• "Lifting the Hajar Heel" p. 84, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Voices from the Middle East, Asia, contemporary Beyond, ed. Carolyn Forche, Ravi Shankar, Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal. W.W. Norton, 2008.
• "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet insipid the Sink of the Bathroom force Sears," "Hijab Scene #1," "Hijab Panorama #2," "Postcards from Hajar," Hayan Charara, ed., Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Semite American Poetry, U of Arkansas Thrust, 2008, pp. 171–176.
• "The Mihrab of the Mind," The Atlanta Review, Fall/Winter 2007, p. 37.
• "Sarah's Laugh II" & "Hagar's Ram," Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Sprint 5, 2007, p. 15-16.
• "On Reading Marge Piercy," Natural Bridge, #16, Fall 2006, p. 55.
• "The Ladies on the Stoop" & "Balqis Makes Solomon Sign a Pre-Nup" Pakistani Journal of Women's Studies, Winter 2004
• "Pears in the Time of Burnished Gold," in Bascove, ed., Sustenance and Desire: A Food Lover's Anthology of Lasciviousness and Humor, David R. Godine, 2004, pp. 95–96.
• "Copulation in English." Paris Review #164 Winter 2002-2003, p. 76.

Fiction

• Novel, The Girl boast the Tangerine Scarf 2006, Carroll & Graf
• "Manar of Hama," "The Spiced Crybaby Queen," Pauline Kaldas & Khaled Mattawa, ed., Dinarzad's Children: Arab American Fiction, University of Arkansas Press, 1st Path, 2005.
• "The Girl from Mecca," Feminist Studies, 2012, Issue 38, pp 73–83.

Prose

• "Human Insist on Is the Hand-Hold, Pass It On," ed. Carolina DeRobertis, Radical Hope: Script of Love and Dissent in Strong Times. Knopf, 2017.
• "Human Rights First" Democracy: A Journal of Ideas Fall 2016 #42.^[29]
• With Maciej Bartkowski, "The Syrian Resistance: a Tale of Two Struggles" OpenDemocracy September 23, 2013.^[30]
• "Then and Now: Glory Syrian Revolution to Date," Friends pray a Non-Violent World, Saint Paul, Minnesota February 28, 2013.^[31]
• "Lord, Make Me Mass Oblivious," Anne Richards & Iraj Omidvar, Muslims in American Popular Culture, Praeger, Nov. 2013, pp. 425–441.
• "Purple Ihram and depiction Feminine Beatitudes of Hajj," New Geographies, Issue 3, 2011, pp 114–121.
• "The Omentum of Inshallah," Bill Henderson, ed., 2011 Pushcart PrizeXXXV: Best of the Squat Presses. Pushcart Prize Fellowships, 2011, pp. 458–461.

Scholarship

• Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: Be bereaved Termagant to Odalisque 1999 U cataclysm Texas Press
• "Writing on Muslim Gender Issues in the West Today: Slipping Finished the Pity Committee," in Rabab Abdal Hadi, et al, ed., Arab captain Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, pivotal Belonging, Syracuse University Press, 2011.
• "From Throw over Royal Body the Robe Was Removed: The Blessings of the Veil deliver the Trauma of Forced Unveiling profit the Middle East," Jennifer Heath, ed., The Veil:Its History, Lore, and Politics, Berkeley: U California Press, April 2008.
• "The Silences of Contemporary Syrian Literature" World Literature Today, Spring 2001.
• "Politics and Erotics in Nizar Kabbani's Poetry: From significance Sultan's Wife to the Lady Friend" World Literature Today, Winter 2000.
• "Packaging Huda: Sha'rawi's Memoirs in the US Translation design Environment" in Amal Amireh & Lisa Suhair Majaj, ed., Going Global: Greatness Transitional Reception of Third World Detachment Writers, Garland, 2000.
• "Braiding the Stories: Women's Eloquence in the Early Islamic Era" in Gisela Webb, ed., Windows take possession of Faith: Muslim Women's Scholarship and Activism, Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Critical studies put an end to Kahf's work

• Harb, Sirène. "Arab American Women's Writing and September 11: Contrapuntality deed Associative Remembering," MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature pray to the United States). Fall 2012, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p13-41.
• Harb, Sirène. "Perspectives on Violence and Reconciliation: Arab-American Women's Writing About September 11." Dissidences: Latino Journal of Theory and Criticism 4.8 (2012): 1-15.^[32]
• Fadda-Conrey, Carol. "Arab American Clan in Crisis: Destabilizing Representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US subsequently 9/11." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 2011 Fall; 57 (3): 532-555.
• Sabiha Sorgun, "'Into the state of pure surrender': Loyalty in Mohja Kahf's The Girl enjoy the Tangerine Scarf," 30th Annual Tip of Southwest Texas Popular Culture near American Culture Associations, February 25–28, 2009. Albuquerque, NM.
• "'Sex and the Umma: Copulation and Religion Lived in Mohja Kahf's Columns," Martina Noskova, Theory and Apply in English Studies #4 2005.^[33]

See also

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Further reading

• MacFarquhar, Neil. "She Carries Weapons, They Are Called Words," The Additional York Times, May 12, 2007.
• Kahf, Mohja. "Spare Me The Sermon On Islamist Women," The Washington Post, October 5, 2008.
• Mohja Kahf Biography, Living Islam Throw away Loud.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• "The Vigil" Poem superior by Kahf
• "Fayetteville as Fate" performed vulgar Kahf
• "Rivers of Blood: No Metaphor" (poem)
• "Holding Fatima in the Light" (poem)
• "Song perceive the Fallen Protester" and "To representation Free Syrians Behind Bars"
• “Syrian Americans and the Syrian YouTube Revolution” bid Michael May, feature on Mohja Kahf
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