Podcasts about Dunya Mikhail

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Poet, journalist, and novelist Dunya Mikhail joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the Yazidis, who are indigenous to Kurdistan and have been targeted by ISIS because of their religious beliefs. After ISIS slaughtered thousands of Yazidi men in northern Iraq in 2014—an event deemed an act of genocide by the U.N.—they kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women and children who were bought, sold, and traded as sexual slaves among ISIS fighters. Mikhail, who is Iraqi-American, previously wrote about the women in the National Book Award-nominated nonfiction book The Beekeeper. She discusses that book and its relationship to her new novel, The Bird Tattoo, which draws on some of the same histories.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Dunya Mikhail The Bird Tattoo In Her Feminine Sign The Beekeeper The Iraqi Nights Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea The War Works Hard  Others: The Security Is Better, Seriously (by Whitney Terrell, Slate, 2011) This poet put the Yazidi women's suffering and strength into words (PBS NewsHour) ISIS Forced Them Into Sexual Slavery. Finally, They've Reunited With Their Children. (New York Times) Dunya Mikhail Finds Freedom in Fiction (Publishers Weekly) Dunya Mikhail: 'The War Works Hard' (NPR) UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture awarded to poet Dunya Mikhail and actress Helen Al-Janabi (UNESCO) Who are the Yazidis and why is Isis hunting them? (The Guardian) Iraqi doctor provides care and comfort to Yazidi survivors (UNCHR) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Some friendships are built on small encounters and last a lifetime. Two women — from across culture, location, and age — spend a lifetime in communication. Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi-American poet and writer. She is the author of Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions Publishing Corporation 2009), The Iraqi Nights (New Directions Publishing Corporation 2014), The Beekeeper (New Directions Publishing Corporation 2018), In Her Feminine Sign (New Directions Publishing Corporation 2019), and The Bird Tattoo (forthcoming from Pegasus Books 2022). She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from United States Artists, Guggenheim, and Kresge. Her honors also include the Arab American Book Award, and the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Dunya Mikhail's poem, and invite you to connect with Poetry Unbound throughout this season.Pre-order the forthcoming book Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World and join us in our new conversational space on Substack.

(REPOST of June 2018 Interview with Dunya Mikhail) This week, a German court on Tuesday jailed a former Islamic State militant for life after convicting him of involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity over mass killings of minority Yazidis by IS in Syria and Iraq.   It was the first genocide verdict against a member of the , an offshoot of al Qaeda that seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014 before being ousted by US-backed counter-offensives, losing its last territorial redoubt in 2019.   Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for KGNU (@KGNU) to the acclaimed poet and journalist  () In her latest work, '', Mikhail - who is herself an Iraqi exile, tells the harrowing stories of (mostly) Yazidi women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. ISIS persecuted the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who would not convert to Islam. The women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya Mikhail weaves together the women's tales of endurance and near-impossible escape with the story of her own exile and her dreams for the future of Iraq. In the midst of ISIS's reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling his mountain honey across the region, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the local terrain to another, more dangerous use. Along with a secret network of transporters, helpers, and former bootleggers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalized Yazidi women to safety through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Western Turkey. Mikhail was born in Baghdad and earned a BA at the University of Baghdad. She worked as a translator and journalist for the Baghdad Observer before being placed on Saddam Hussein's enemies list. She immigrated to the United States in the mid-1990s and earned an MA at Wayne State University. Mikhail, a Christian, is the author of several collections of poetry published in Arabic. Her first book published in English, The War Works Hard(2005), translated by Elizabeth Winslow, won the PEN Translation Award, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and was selected as one of the 25 Best Books of 2005 by the New York Public Library. Elena Chiti translated The War Works Hard into Italian in 2011. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea(2009), which Mikhail co-translated with Elizabeth Winslow, won the Arab American Book Award. Mikhail's collection of poetry The Iraqi Nights (2014) was translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and published by New Directions. 

Welcome to the first episode of the Seen Jeem podcast, which highlights the voices of contemporary Arab American writers! Joining us for our first episode is Dunya Mikhail. Dunya discusses her latest collection of poetry In Her Feminine Sign, touching on the art of translation, the use of testimonials and fables in verse, the meaning of home, the plight of Iraqi women in times of political instability and violence, war trauma, and the burden of memories. She describes the experience of returning to Iraq after years of exile to conduct research for her creative nonfiction book The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq. This interview took place in the Spring of 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seenjeempodcast/message

Alex has been relishing the opening of galleries and has been to not one but two exhibitions of Rodin. She's also been splurging in Waterstones on young adult novels, including a tarot mystery with Caroline O'Donoghue, the first novel in the Shadow and Bone series and a novel that the bookseller described as a ‘Brokeback Mountain with zombies'. What more could you ask for?! Meanwhile, Rhiannon has been devouring the touching comedy, ‘Feel Good' by Mae Martin, adoring the funny and realistic representation of addiction and romance. She also tells us about ‘The Beekeeper of Sinjar', a heartbreaking read about a beekeeper's heroic mission to find the Iraqi women taken by Daesh. Finally, Alex lightens the tone asking Rhiannon about the 16 Personalities Test. Who doesn't love a quiz to find out your true self? We are an accessible podcast so find transcripts on our linktree in our instagram bio @thegrandthunk. Follow us on social media @thegrandthunk or email us - thegrandthunk@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe, rate, review and tell all your friends. See below for a full list of what we discuss: Rodin in the Tate Modern The Victoria and Albert Museum - Cast Courts Monument to Emily Georgiana, Lady Winchilsea Covid Sniffer Dogs - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/science/covid-sniffing-dogs.html Sherpa on Netflix All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo Shadow and Bone on Netflix Wranglestone by Darren Charlton Feel Good by Mae Martin and Joe Hampson The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail 16 Personalities Test

Recorded by Dunya Mikhail for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 2, 2021. www.poets.org

Dunya Mikhail on her selection: My translation of this poem by Louise Glück, the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is part of my continuous work to translate contemporary American poetry into Arabic. Like the rest of Louise Glück’s poetry, “Winter Recipes from the Collective” makes us contemplate how a personal narrative informs a universal truth.  This poem was originally published in the Winter 2020 issue of The American Scholar. Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

This episode explores new research, which has found 24 ‘superhabitable' planets that may have conditions that are more suitable for life than here on Earth. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Another Planet' by Dunya Mikhail here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com   Twitter: @samillingworth   

  We discuss a book that tells the stories of women who rallied to ISIS; one that focuses on a Franco-Moroccan family grappling with the end of colonialism; and a picaresque, satirical novel  from 1940s Egypt that has been recently re-discovered. Show Notes: Ursula's review of Guest House for Young Widows, a book about women who joined ISIS, appeared in the last issue of The Point magazine. It references a few other books, such as Dunya Mikhail's  The Beekeeper of Sinjar (which gathers the testimonies of Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS) and David Thomson's The Returned, about French jihadis. Ursula's review of the Moroccan-French author Leila Slimani's latest novel, Le Pays des Autres, will be out soon in the New York Review of books. Slimani's The Perfect Nanny was an international best-seller; her new book is part of a planned historical trilogy set in Morocco. Adel Kamel's long-forgotten, now-remembered classic Malim al-Akbar recently appeared in English as The Magnificent Conman of Cairo. A special section on ArabLit marks the launch. Literary detective Mohamed Shoair is author of the acclaimed 2018 popular history Children of the Alley: The Story of the Forbidden Novel, which follows the story of Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel. A chapter of Shoair's book appears online in Samah Selim's translation. Mahfouz talks briefly about the Harafish, his circle of literary friends, in Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber: Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001, from conversations with Mohamed Salmawy. Albert Cossery was a French writer of Levantine origin, born in Cairo. Although he settled in Paris in 1945, he set all his wonderful novels — about criminals, layabouts and would-be revolutionaries — in Egypt or the middle east.  The crime issue of ArabLit Quarterly is available now.

The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Iraqi journalist Dunya Mikhail is the deeply moving real-life account of an Iraqi honey trader who used his regional knowledge to help liberate Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS. Dunya weaves together recent tales of near-impossible escapes with her own experience of exile. A former journalist at The Baghdad Observer and winner of the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, Dunya talks to SBS’s Janice Petersen to reflect on a remarkable story that offers a hopeful counterpoint to terror and hatred.

Across the world, journalists are under greater threat than at any point in the last decade, with the rise of authoritarianism and internet censorship redoubling pressures on reporters. In conversation with ABC’s Sophie McNeill, three uniquely placed foreign writers and journalists share their perspectives on the struggles and costs of reporting the truth and exposing lies under corrupt and oppressive governments. Featuring Mexican reporter and author Anabel Hernández, Iraqi-American writer Dunya Mikhail and Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran.

This week, Liberty and Alice discuss Marilou is Everywhere, Rotherweird, Speaking of Summer, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Versify podcast and HarperCollins and The Rogue to Ruin by Vivienne Lorret. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Marilou Is Everywhere: A Novel by Sarah Smith Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World by Neil Shister Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone The Ascent to Godhood (The Tensorate Series Book 4) by JY Yang Deadly Aim The Civil War Story of Michigan's Anishinaabe Sharpshooters by Sally M. Walker What we're reading: American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins More books out this week: LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor, Tana Ford (Illustrator) In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail   The Arrangement by Robyn Harding  The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker Never Have I Ever: A Novel by Joshilyn Jackson The Chelsea Girls: A Novel by Fiona Davis  Blood Sisters by Yideum Kim and Jiyoon Lee The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins  The Churchgoer: A Novel by Patrick Coleman  The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow Series) by Margaret Owen The Hero Next Door edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich Brazen and the Beast: The Bareknuckle Bastards Book II by Sarah MacLean How to Hack a Heartbreak by Kristin Rockaway  Goodnight Stranger by Miciah Bay Gault That's What Frenemies Are For by Sophie Littlefield and Lauren Gershell  The Year They Fell by David Kreizman The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks  Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington This Is Not America: Stories by Jordi Punti Someone We Know: A Novel by Shari Lapena  Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford Too Close by Natalie Daniels The Escape Room: A Novel by Megan Goldin Chances Are . . .: A novel by Richard Russo  Smokescreen (Eve Duncan) by Iris Johansen  Tallulah the Tooth Fairy CEO by Tamara Pizzoli, Federico Fabiani (Illustrator)

 Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for KGNU (@KGNU) to the acclaimed poet and journalist  () In her latest work, '', Mikhail - who is herself an Iraqi exile, tells the harrowing stories of (mostly) Yazidi women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya Mikhail weaves together the women's tales of endurance and near-impossible escape with the story of her own exile and her dreams for the future of Iraq. In the midst of ISIS's reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling his mountain honey across the region, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the local terrain to another, more dangerous use. Along with a secret network of transporters, helpers, and former bootleggers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalized Yazidi women to safety through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Western Turkey. Mikhail was born in Baghdad and earned a BA at the University of Baghdad. She worked as a translator and journalist for the Baghdad Observer before being placed on Saddam Hussein’s enemies list. She immigrated to the United States in the mid-1990s and earned an MA at Wayne State University. Mikhail, a Christian, is the author of several collections of poetry published in Arabic. Her first book published in English, The War Works Hard(2005), translated by Elizabeth Winslow, won the PEN Translation Award, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and was selected as one of the 25 Best Books of 2005 by the New York Public Library. Elena Chiti translated The War Works Hard into Italian in 2011. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea(2009), which Mikhail co-translated with Elizabeth Winslow, won the Arab American Book Award. Mikhail's collection of poetry The Iraqi Nights (2014) was translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and published by New Directions. 

Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration, reconnection and poetry as 'a museum of feeling'.

DUNYA MIKHAIL was born in Iraq and left for the United States in 1996. Her books include The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea, and The War Works Hard. She also edited a pamphlet of Iraqi poetry titled 15 Iraqi Poets. She was awarded the Kresge Fellowship, Arab American Book Award, and UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.

March 2, 2016. Poet, translator and journalist Dunya Mikhail will discuss her work with Ron Charles of the Washington Post. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7303

American poet Katie Ford talks to Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail about how the experience of natural and human disasters inform their work.

Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail immigrated to the United States in 1996 after increasing harassment over her poetry, which confronts war and exile with subversive depictions of suffering. In 2001 she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 11960]

Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail immigrated to the United States in 1996 after increasing harassment over her poetry, which confronts war and exile with subversive depictions of suffering. In 2001 she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 11960]

Dunya Mikhail at the Poems of Peace and War panel. Part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, 2006.