What the World's Silence Says: A Reading with Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
Event Details:
- Monday, February 26, 2024
- 6:00 p.m.
- EMU Redwood Room
Yahya Ashour (born 1998) is an award-winning author and touring poet from Gaza City. In 2022, he was an honorary fellow at the University of Iowa and in the past year has read poetry at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Minnesota. He has one poetry collection and one children’s book published in Arabic, and he contributed to several printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His writings were translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish. He delivered several creative writing workshops for children and youth in Gaza.
Sponsored by Islamic Studies Initiative, housed within the Division of Global Engagement's Global Studies Institute. Organized under the shared principles for educational events in response to the Israel-Palestine conflict and in coordination with the group that developed the principles.