| Performances---------------Readings------------------Workshops MacDowell Downtown, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH, December 2006
Emergent Sea 9/11, Locus Arts, San Francisco, September 2006 Music that Heals, Peace Building Concert, Wisdom of the Worlds, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA, August 2006 Island Reading Series, Anna’s Jazz Island, Berkeley, CA, August 2006 Cease Fire, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA ,August, 2006 In the Spirit of Gibran, Arab-American National Museum, DearbornApril 27, 2006 Poetry and Music of Arab-Americans, Amazon Lounge, Fresno, CA April 20, 2006 The Torture Quartet, Alwan Studio, New York, March 4, 2005 32 Mohammeds, Martin Segal Theater, New York, March 3, 2005 Flower Girl, Wyoming Arts Council, Casper College, October 2, 2004 A Prisoner’s Anatomy, Presentation Theater, July 1, 2004 The Refugee, Presentation Theater,, Week I, June 23, 2004 Reading Tour Venezuela: Ateneo De Valencia, Universidad Metropolitana, and Chacao Cultural Center: June 8-11, 2004 Poetry Center, 50/50 Festival 32, Unitarian Center, SF, April 17, 2004 32 Muhameds, Burtness Theatre, University of North Dakota, March 26, 2003 DeAnza College Reading Series, DeAnza College, February 11, 2004 The Peace Poetry of Langston; Let America Be America Again, Presentation Theater, San Francisco, January 31, 2004 College For a Day, Denver, Colorado, January 12, 2004 32 Muhameds with Tony Khalife; San Jose Institute, Key West Literary Seminar, January 9, 2004 Key West Literary Seminar, January 8, 2004 Under the Ramadan Moon; VFW Hall, Key West Literary Seminar, January 7, 2004 The Fly, Key West High School, January 5, 2004 Arab Writers Union Conference, Algiers, December 26, 2003 ReOrientalism, Golden Thread Productions, SF, November 17, 2003 National Conference on Research on Women, May 20, 2003 SAAS Conference, Vittoria, Spain, April 11, 2003 Circulo de Belles Artes, Madrid, April 9, 2003 Brechthaus, Augsburg, Germany, April 7, 2003 Literaturwekrstatt, Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2003 In The Country of My Dreams’--Das arabische Gesicht Amerikas, US.Embassy, April 4, 2003 Romanfabrik, Frankfurt, Germany, April 3, 2003 Poets Against the War, Intersection for the Arts, SF, March 30, 2003 Associated Writing Programs Conference, Baltimore, March 1, 2003 Poets Against the War, Revolutions Books, Berkeley February 12, 2003 Folger Shakespeare Library, November 13, 2002 Georgetown University, November 14, 2002 The Poetry of Displacement: Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA., October 11, 2002 University of San Francisco, June 27, 2002 Desgarada Series, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, July 15, 2002 Literacy as Art Reading, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, June 29, 2002 Literature without Borders, Oakland, CA April 18, 2002 Under the Ramadan Moon, Spring Colloquium, Mills College, February 24, 2002 A Root Goes Deep, A Poetry Reading of Arab American and Jewish American Women, Arch Street Friends Meeting House, Philadelphia April 11, 2002 VONA Benefit, La Pena Cultural Center, June 23, 2001 ACCESS Tour: Conference on Arab American Health , May 14, 2001, Dearborn MI Selected Schools throughout Dearborn, Chicago and Philadelphia Diwan Restaurant, May 21, 2001 Philadelphia Moustache Garden Restaurant, May 24, 2001, New York Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, Or, 2 week run (awarded 2 Drammies) Sanaa, Yemen, 2000: Sanaa University & Empirical Research and Women’s Studies Center; PAO Residence; Sanaa University; Yemeni-Arab Language Institute Aden, Yemen: University of Aden; Movenpick Hotel Forum PEN Readers and Writers Tour: New York: Bushwick High School, Humanities Prep School, West Farm Career Center, Chelsea FEDCAP Pride; Boston: Jeremiah Burke High School, South Boston Neighborhood House, March 16-27 La Pena Cultural Center, December 14, 2000 Gill Theater, University of San Francisco, June 29, 2000 Porter-Troupe Gallery. San Diego, May 5, 2000 Egypt: University of Alexandria, Damanhour, PAO Residence, Al Thalia Theater, Cairo 1999 Speaking Tour, 1996, USIA-Middle East, North Africa, Saudi Arabia: US Embassy Riyadh & Jeddah; Egypt: American Cultural Center, Alexandria, Cairo University, Al-Fishawi Café, Cairo, Al Mustaqba Library, Heliopolis, Ain Shams University, Cairo; Israel: Beit Berl Teachers College, American Cultural Centers, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv; Palestine: Bethlehem University, Najah University, Nablus, Palestine Writers Union, Al-Ram; Morocco: USIS, Rabat, Dar America, Rabat, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, American Language Center, Fes, Dar America, Casablanca. Presentations (Selected) Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Arts, International NETWORK of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education, Miami Beach Fl, October 13, 2006 Writing and Social Justice, Centro Cultura, Caracas, Venezuela, June 10, 2004 Cultural Identity, Silicon Valley Arts Summit, San Jose, CA, May7, 2004 Country of Origin Panel, University of North Dakota Literary Seminar, March 24, 2004 Essay, Fiction, Film, Poem, Memoir: How to Choose, UND Literary Seminar, March 26, 2003 Writers Remembered, San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, January 24, 2004 Crossing Borders, Key West Literary Seminar, January 10, 2004 Immigrant Writers, Key West Literary Seminar, January 9, 2004 American Representation to Arab Writers Union Conference in Algeria, December 19-26, 2003 Haiti Tour: The Female Experience of Migration, Public Diplomacy Building, Port Au Prince The Migration Experience and Literature of the U.S. The National Library, Haiti An Overview of Arab-American Literature in the US, Thesaurus Book Store, Santiago, D.R. Salon de Te, Tertulia , American Embassy, Haiti Dominican Republic Tour Multi-ethnic Writers in the United States: The Building of an Identity, Centro Cultural Dominico Americano, International Book Fair, Santo Domingo, April 23-27,2002 Answering the Historical Perspective, The Memoir of Family, The Arab Novel: Vision of Social Reality, Georgetown University, April 13, 2002 Unpacking Scholarship Biases in a Global Research Agenda, Moderator, Mills College Symposium, May 22, 2001 From Page to Stage, Country of Origin, Taking a Story to Performance, Popular Culture Convention, New Orleans, April 22,2001 Arab American Writers Panel, Virginia Book Fair, Charlottesville, VA, March 25, 2000 The Arab American Story in Drama and Film, Arab American Writers Conference, Chicago, IL, October 10, 1999 Middle East Tour Series Filling in the Gaps: Women Responding to History. A Practitioner’s View, Women’s Studies Conference; Women’s Literature in the United States, Sana’a University, The Experience of Arab American Writers in the U.S ,University of Aden, Yemen September 9-15, 1999 Trends in Egyptian and American Literature: A Millennium Evening, U.S. Embassy, Cairo, 24 November 1998 Culture as an Influence on Arab American Literature, ADC Conference, Washington, D.C., 13 June 1998 The Role of the Creative Writer in Society, Dar America, Rabat, Morocco, June 20, 1996 The Role of the Woman Writer, Beit Berl Teachers College, Israel, June 9, 1996 Ethnic American Literature Through a Poet's Eyes, USIA Speaker’s Tour: Jordan University for Women, Aden University, University of Sana’a, January 21, 1993 Origin Series, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, May 6,1999 Guided Memory: Objectifying Symbols of Confinement, NGO Forum on Women, China, August 30 1995 Looking Back with Irony: the First Generation Doesn't Always Buy It, Unsettling America Conference, Passaic County Community College, October 22, 1994 |
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