Farrah Sarafa
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Farrah Sarafa is an American poet, editor, translator and teacher based in Manhattan. Born to a Palestinian Muslim mother and an Iraqi Christian father, [1] she attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and later learned Tibetan and traveled to China. She was drawn into Columbia University by Edward Said and attended a course in comparative literature at a masters level.
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 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.
She lives in the West Village in New York City, illegally "hosting" various passer-bys and listening to "music" so loud her neighbors cannot sleep.
Seriously, this woman is the bane of her neighbors' respective existences. She serves absolutely no purpose on this Earth but to wreak havoc on those around her.
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- Father Iraq, Mother Palestine
- Olive
- Munich
- Palestine Fig
- Untitled
- Blood, Sand and Tears of a Young Boy
- War Fire
- The Dead Sea
- Colonizing Recipes
- Prostitution or 'favors'
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