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Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal Nathalie Handal was born on July 29, 1969 and has lived in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Arab world.

She has been involved in over 20 productions worldwide, most recently two of her plays were performed in New York, Between Our Lips (Blue Heron Theatre) and The Details of Silence (Symphony Space).

Her most recent books include: the poetry CD, Spell (music by Egyptian musician Will Soliman), The Lives of Rain, which was shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize/The Pitt Poetry Series and she is co-editing along with Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar, Contemporary Poetry of the Eastern World.

She is Poetry Books Review Editor for Sable (UK), a member of Nibras Theatre Collective and Associate Producer for the feature film, Gibran.

Handal teaches at Columbia University and is the recipient of the Menada Award, an international literary prize awarded to her in Macedonia.
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Saturday, April 29 at 4:00
Women Poets from the Middle East
Handal Online
www.nathaliehandal.com


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