| elmazAbinader Country of Origins Productions presentations |
| Presentations (Selected) Ceasefire, La Pena Cultural Center, August,2006 Writing and Social Justice, Centro Cultura, Caracas, Venezuela, June 2004 Cultural Identity, Silicon Valley Arts Summit, San Jose, CA, May 2004 Country of Origin Panel, University of North Dakota Literary Seminar, March 24, 2004 Essay, Fiction, Film, Poem, Memoir: How to Choose, UND LiterarySeminar, March, 2003 Writers Remembered, San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, January 2004 Crossing Borders, Key West Literary Seminar, January 2004 Immigrant Writers, Key West Literary Seminar, January 2004 American Representation to Arab Writers Union Conference in Algeria, December2003 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 Multi-ethnic Writers in the United States: The Building of an Identity, Centro Cultural Dominico Americano, International Book Fair, Santo Domingo, April 2002 Answering the Historical Perspective, The Memoir of Family, The Arab Novel: Vision of Social Reality, Georgetown University, April 2002 Unpacking Scholarship Biases in a Global Research Agenda, Moderator, AAUIW Symposium, May 2001 From Page to Stage, Country of Origin, Taking a Story to Performance, Popular Culture Convention, New Orleans April, 2001 Arab American Writers Panel, Virginia Book Fair, Charlottesville, VA, March, 2000 The Arab American Story in Drama and Film, Arab American Writers Conference, Chicago, IL, October 1999 Filling in the Gaps: Women Responding to History. A Practitioner's View, Women's Studies Conference; Women's Literature in the USA, Sanaa University, The Experience of Arab American Writers in the U.S.,University of Aden, Yemen ,September 1999 Origin Series, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center , Portland, May1999 Trends in Egyptian and American Literature: A Millennium Evening U.S. Embassy, Cairo, November 1998 Culture as an Influence on Arab American Literature, ADC Conference, Washington, D.C., June 1998 The Role of the Creative Writer in Society, Dar America, Rabat, Morocco, June, 1996 The Role of the Woman Writer, Beit Berl Teachers College, Israel June 1996 Guided Memory: Objectifying Symbols of Confinement, NGO Forum on Women, China, 30 August 1995 Looking Back with Irony: the First Generation Doesn't Always Buy It, Unsettling America Conference, Passaic County Community College, October 1994 Ethnic American Literature Through a Poet's Eyes, USIA Speaker's Tour: Jordan University for Women, Aden University, University of Sanaa, January 1993 |