Farrah Sarafa

Farrah Sarafa is an American poet, editor, translator and teacher based in Manhattan. Born to a Palestinian Muslim mother and an Iraqi Christian father, [ [http://www.janera.com/janera_about.php Online magazine and social network for the community of Global Nomads ] ] she attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and later learned Tibetan and traveled to China. She was drawn into Columbia University by Edward Said and attended a course in comparative literature at a masters level.

She has been published in several literary journals, such as "Tablets", "Arabesques", and the "Litchfield Review", and continues to work as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for "The Struggle" and "The Chaldean News". She teaches humanities at various Manhattan based schools and she won a Hopwood Poetry Award, and she has also published one poetry book.

Not being able to visit her ancestral homes, she manages to express and explore ways to battle the oppression she feels through fiction, so she can access the intimates of her Palestinian-Iraqi homelands.

She has won a number of awards and prizes for her poetry.

Work

* "Father Iraq, Mother Palestine"
* "Olive"
* "Munich"
* "Palestine Fig"
* "Untitled"
* "Blood, Sand and Tears of a Young Boy"
* "War Fire"
* "The Dead Sea"
* "Colonizing Recipes"

References

External links

* [http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/poemsJLY_06.htm War Poetry by Farrah Sarafa]