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Jun.28.2008
If you meet an Indian women, don't say, saris are so beautiful, I'm thinking of getting one
If you meet an Indian man, don't say, I thought all the jobs were over there now
If you meet a brother, don't say, whassup dog,
or
an older brother, man i was listening to the Miles track the other day......
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Jun.24.2008
Thursday June 26, Thomas Glave, Faith Adiele, Ruth Forman, Gregory Allen Howard, Diem Jones, Elmaz Abinader with Tony Khalife--hosted by Aimee Alllison
Thursday July 3, Chris Abani, Mat Johnson, Suheir Hammad, David Mura and Elmaz Abinader Hosted by ZZ Packer
www.voicesatvona.org/events
Two days...
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Jun.10.2008
In the back of the July 2008 Good Housekeeping Magazine, is a little excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, Country of Origin. The editors called it Flavors of Home, a nice title, full of the sense of homage this particular article is filled with. The excerpt is a pleasant moment of an otherwise...
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Jun.06.2008
In fifteen days, the participants for the Voices workshop (http://www.voicesatvona.org/) will arrive in San Francisco. Our two weeks of workshops at USF are run by 9 master writers and bring about 100 participants to town. They come from all over. A quick survey of my two classes, Political...
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May.30.2008
I'm a slow writer. Poems enter at will; the chapters of the memoir and the novel flow slow blood through my arms. So I often delay the satisfaction of publication until the faraway completion of these manuscripts.. Writing without publishing is a fast, a little bit of a deprivation of essential...
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May.19.2008
It's the calm before the storm. Camping at Mackerricher State Park, the quiet and the disconnect, coming home to an empty house, putting away the gear, taking a power shower and settling on clean sheets...none of this spoke of his death, or maybe it did...Emails come with a ding, a microsoft...
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Apr.24.2008
The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) www.voicesatvona.org is wrapping up the application process for 08. Record number of applicants this year, again, and unmatchable faculty for this summer. Our first year without Junot Diaz, a co-founder, will be different because Junot is rich with...
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About Elmaz
Elmaz's books, Children of the Roojme, a Family's Journey from Lebanon and In The Country of My Dreams... , as well as her play, Country of Origin, illustrate personal lives of Arabs and Arab Americans negotiating hostile terrain, cultural polarities,...
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