Please join us for an evening of poetry featuring Ghayath Almadhoun on Tuesday October 11th at 5:15pm in University Hall, Room 418, co-sponsored by the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium and the MENA cluster.

Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus in 1979 and immigrated to Sweden in 2008. Right now he lives in between Berlin & Stockholm. Almadhoun has published four collections of poetry, the latest “Adrenaline” in Milano 2017. In Sweden, he has been translated and published in two collections: Asylansökan (Ersatz, 2010), which was awarded the Klas de Vylders stipendiefond for immigrant writers. He also authored Till Damaskus (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014) together with the Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg. which was included in “Dagens Nyheter” (the largest Swedish newspaper) literary critic list for Best New Books and converted to a Radio Play for Swedish National Radio. With Silkeberg, Almadhoun has also made several poetry films. His work has been translated into Swedish, German, Greek, Slovenian, Italian, English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Czech, Croatian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Indonesian, Macedonian, Bengali, Persian, Hindi, Maltese, Hebrew, and Chinese. (Website: https://www.ghayathalmadhoun.com/)

Following the reading, a conversation with Ghayath Almadhoun will be hosted by Smith Yarberry and George Abraham.