When:
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 1515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Franziska Lys
(847) 491-8298
Group: MENA Languages Program
Category: Academic
Yahya Ashour, born in Gaza City in 1998, is a touring poet and award-winning author. He has published a children's book in Arabic and a collection of poetry called "You are a Window, They are Clouds" and has contributed to several printed anthologies and online journals. Yahya Ashour was a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa.
The event is sponsored by the MENA Languages Program; MENA Studies; the Council on Language Instruction; the Department of English and the Litowitz Program in Creative Writing; the Equity, Justice, and Community in Pedagogy Group; the MENA Student Association.