Farah gated A-1 webinar

Guest Speaker:

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  QA. FarahElyan Poc1

  credentials here

  Wiley

  Farah Elyan is an internationally acclaimed novelist, poet, and cultural essayist whose writing navigates the vast and often turbulent terrain between East and West, between the world as it is and the world as it ought to be. Born in Cairo to a family of academics and artists, she spent her early childhood in the shadow of the city's grand, chaotic beauty — the call to prayer echoing off limestone walls, the Nile catching the last of the afternoon light, her mother reading aloud from Naguib Mahfouz and Nawal El Saadawi at the kitchen table. These early encounters with language as both art and resistance would shape everything that followed.

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  Richard Donnelly