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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>In the Market of Sex Slaves: A Talk and A Reading by </i></b><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i>Dunya Mikhail</i></b></font></div>
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<div>True stories of heroism, liberation, and sometimes failure, told to her by Abdullah, a bee keeper, forced into the profession of saving captive women from Da’esh (ISIS).</div>
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<div>The Department of English Language and Literature Speaker’s Series presents Iraqi-American author of <i>The Iraqi Nights </i>(New Directions, 2014); <i>The War Works Hard</i> (New Directions, 2005), shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and named one of “Twenty-Five
Books to Remember from 2005” by the New York Public Library; and <i>Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea</i> (New Directions, 2009) which won the 2010 Arab American Book Award. Her donors also include the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing (2001) and
the Kresge Artist Fellowship (2013).</div>
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<div>Dr. Frankie Condon</div>
<div>Associate Professor, English Language and Literature</div>
<div>University of Waterloo</div>
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