Event
Bitter English, Book Talk, Ahmad Almallah in conversation with Esraa Al-Shammari
Dr. Ahmad Almallah, Lecturer of Arabic and Arabic Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by
Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Book Center
Participants
Esraa Al-Shammari, PhD candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Through finely crafted poems Ahmad Almallah replicates his own verbal and cultural experience of existing between languages and socities. There is a sense of displacement to these poems as Almallah recounts the amusing, sad, and perilous moments of day-to-day living in exile.