Published October 28th, 2025 Event
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | 5 pm (CET) / 12 pm (EST) / 9:30 pm (IST)
Online via Zoom
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Join us for an exclusive online author talk with the English-as-a-second-language writers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Nawel Abdallah. At the event, both authors will read from their work and join us for a discussion on their writing. Questions from the audience are welcome.
The talk will take place via Zoom. The link will be provided on this web page a week prior to the event.
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More on the authors:
Born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a poet and translator who completed his doctorate in English Literature at the University of Oxford. Time, the body and ruination inform his poetry and prose, which have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Stand, New England Review, Poetry London and Wasafiri. Yousif is the Creative Encounters Editor of the Migration and Society journal, Writer-in-Residence for the Refugee Hosts project, and a Poetry Book Society Selector. His debut collection, Writing the Camp (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), was a 2021 PBS Recommendation; was selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by the Telegraph and the Irish Times; was highly commended by the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry; and was shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Yousif’s latest book is Eating the Archive (Broken Sleep Books, 2023).
Photo: E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Nawel Abdallah is a Palestinian-Tunisian poet and writer based in Berlin. With a background in medical biotechnology and North American Studies, she writes in both Arabic and English, exploring themes of identity, memory, and belonging. Her work, which often engages with contemporary political and humanitarian concerns, has been published in outlets including Protean Magazine, And Other Poems and Tint Journal.
thttps://tintjournal.com/about/writers/nawel-abdallah
Photo: Anas Marrawi
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