Ghada Alatrash

eBook, ePUB

Stripped to the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Set between war-torn Syria and the West, Stripped to the Bone explores issues of identity, love, strife, courage and resilience in seven fictional portraits of Syrian women. Preface Story 1 - Zahrah 11 Story 2 - Reem & Mayyada 27 Story 3 - Lama 49 Story 4 - Um Jaad 67 Story 5 - Hanaan & Salaam 85 Story 6 - Ward 101 Story 7 - Um Maryam 119 Postscript Illustration credits Index of first lines Literary endnotes

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• Größe: 0.84MB
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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Syrian-Canadian author and translator Ghada Alatrash is a Doctoral Student at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma. One of her goals is to amplify the voices of the margin¬alized through her writings. She translated a collection of Arabic poems by Youssef Abdul Samad published as So that the Poem Remains.

Ghada and other Syrian artists were profiled on the PBS NEWSHOUR at pbs.org/newshour/bb/surrounded-by-violence-syrians-seek-solace-in-art

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Petra Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781927032480
• Artikelnr.: 52283325