Faleeha Hassan, WAR AND ME: A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to Pulitzer and Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, poet, playwright, and teacher Faleeha Hassan about her remarkable, heartfelt, and harrowing new memoir War and Me. Faleeha talks about the unimaginable hardship of living through several wars, the memories that still haunt her today, and how her past experiences inevitably infiltrate her life and writing. She also describes what it was like to move to the United States and teach herself English and how her life has changed since being nominated for the most prestigious writing award.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
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| 0:58.5 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Faleha Hassan is the author of Warren Me, a memoir. |
| 1:02.2 | Faleha is a poet, playwright, writer, teacher, and editor who earned her master's degree |
| 1:06.6 | in Arabic literature and has published 25 books. |
| 1:09.7 | A nominee for both the Pulitzer and Pushkart |
| 1:12.0 | prizes, she is the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. Her poems have been translated |
| 1:17.0 | into 21 languages, and she has received numerous awards throughout the Middle East. Asan is a member |
| 1:22.7 | of the Iraq Literary Women's Association, the Sinu Association in Denmark, the Society of Poets Beyond |
| 1:28.1 | Limits, and Poets of the World Community. Born in Iraq, she now resides in New Jersey. |
| 1:32.7 | Welcome, Faleha. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss |
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