Award Winning Iraqi- American Author, Dunya Mikhail Speaking at U-Waterloo this week!

[Frances Condon]

In the Market of Sex Slaves: A Talk and A Reading by Dunya Mikhail

Friday, March 31 at 3:30PM in Hagey Hall  1102.

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).

The Department of English Language and Literature Speaker’s Series presents Iraqi-American author of The Iraqi Nights (New Directions, 2014); The War Works Hard (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 Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (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).


Dr. Frankie Condon
Associate Professor, English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo


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