Hala Alyan & Naomi Shihab Nye w/ music by Simon Shaheen The Media Line Staff
About this Event
Hala Alyan and
Naomi Shihab Nye to navigate identity, displacement, crossing, intergenerational family ties through intimate documentary narratives. The readers will be joined by the renowned composer, oud, and violin player
Simon Shaheen. We’re also excited to celebrate the publication of Hala Alyan’s second novel
The Arsonists’ City!
The New Yorker,
The New York Times,
Guernica and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and the Crab Orchard Series. Her second novel,
THE ARSONIST’S CITY, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021.