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| Lisa Suhair Majaj | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) Hawarden, Iowa, United States |
| Nationality | Palestinian-American |
| Education | American University of Beirut, University of Michigan |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, scholar |
Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar. Born in Hawarden, Iowa, Majaj was raised in Jordan. She earned a B.A. in English literature from American University of Beirut and an M.A. in English Literature, an M.A. in American Culture and a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. In 2001, she moved to Nicosia, Cyprus. Her poetry and essays have been published. In 2008, she was awarded the Del Sol Press Annual Poetry Prize for her poetry manuscript Geographies of Light. "In difficult times, poets and writers have always provided lifelines."
Works
- Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers (Garland, 2000)
- Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women's Novels (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
- These Words (chapbook, 2003)
- Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab American Writer and Artist (McFarland Publishing, 2002)
- Geographies of Light, 2009
- Guidelines - by Lisa Suhair Majaj
References
- "Fragments of Hope: AN INTERVIEW WITH LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 9 (3): 402–409. 2007-09-01. doi:10.1080/14616740701438333. ISSN 1461-6742. S2CID 214653028.
- ^ "Lisa Suhair Majaj - Arab Women Writers". arabwomenwriters.com. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
- "The Annual Del-Sol Poetry Prize". Del Sol Press. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- Sazzad, Rehnuma (2013) "Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geographies of Light: the Lighted Landscape of Hope (Book Review)," Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 11.
External links
- Lisa Suhair Majaj, Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Naomi Shihab Nye reads and discusses Lisa Suhair Majaj's "Guidelines"
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