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THE BIRD TATTOO in the Christian Science Monitor's list of December's 10 best books

December’s 10 best books

THE BIRD TATTOO by Dunya Mikhail in Zibby Owens's Dec. book recommendations for Good Morning America

12 books to curl up with this December by Zibby Owens

THE BIRD TATTOO in the Ms. Magazine list

December 2022 Reads for the Rest of Us

12/6/2022 by KARLA J. STRAND

Oakland University lecturer awarded 18th UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture

Dunya Mikhail, an internationally celebrated poet and Oakland University special lecturer of Arabic in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, has been awarded the 18thUNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture, based on the recommendations of an international jury of experts. 

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UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture awarded to poet Dunya Mikhail and actress Helen Al-Janabi

Dunya Mikhail, an American-Iraqi poet, and Helen Al-Janabi, a Swedish actress of Syrian-Iraqi origin will be awarded the 18th UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture, based on the recommendations of an international jury of experts.

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Dunya Mikhail was a featured speaker in session ‘Multilingual Poets for a Multilingual Nation

Oakland University lecturer invited to speak at 2022 MLA Convention

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"The Bird Tattoo" shortlisted for 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction news

The shortlist was revealed by this year’s Chair of Judges Chawki Bazih, who appeared alongside Fleur Montanaro, the prize’s Administrator

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"The Beekeeper" -Arabic version- listed as one of 20 best Arabic language books

"The Beekeeper" -Arabic version- selected by Happy (Australia) as one of 20 of the best Arabic language books

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“Captives" to be published by Editions Grasset, October, 2021

Ces dernières années, les Yézidis ont été victimes d’un génocide, reconnu comme tel par les Nations unies, perpétré par l’Etat islamique – aujourd’hui encore, des milliers d’entre eux sont portés disparus. Captives raconte leur histoire.

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Dunya Mikhail receives the 2021 USA Fellowship

"The 2021 USA Fellows were chosen for their bold artistic vision and significant impact."

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“The Beekeeper” finalist for PEN/ Kenneth Galbraith award for nonfiction

Dunya Mikhail’s highly acclaimed non-fiction debut, THE BEEKEEPER (UK title – THE BEEKEEPER OF SINJAR), has been selected as one of five finalists for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non Fiction 2019.

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“The Beekeeper” in the National Book Awards Longlist

2018 marks the inaugural year for the National Book Award in translated literature, which means that all of the authors on the longlist are first-time contenders.

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Newsweek picks “The Beekeeper” as one of 2018’s best books

The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, by Dunya Mikhail (New Directions Publishing) In 2014, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) invaded northern Iraq, killing men and enslaving women. A local beekeeper courageously smuggled some of the women back to their homes, and Mikhail, a journalist and poet, spoke to some of those survivors, bearing witness to wrenching stories of horrific abuse.

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Evening Standard selects “The Beekeeper of Sinjar” as one of the best books of 2018

Evening Standard selects “The Beekeeper of Sinjar” as one of the best books of 2018

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The New York Times recommend "The Beekeeper"

The New York Times recommend these 8 books

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Dunya Mikhail is named a Guggenheim fellow

Fellow: Awarded 2018

Field of Study: Poetry

Competition: US & Canada

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The Christian Science Monitor picks "the Beekeeper" as one of 10 best books of March

From a young Picasso to a Chinese couple seeking new lives in the US to the travails of the Yazidi women of Iraq – the Monitor’s ’10 best books of March’ list ranges far and wide.

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The Publishers Weekly listed “The Beekeeper” in their lists of top ten (2018, spring and summer)

“The Beekeeper” in Publishers Weekly’s lists of top ten

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Dunya Mikhail, 2013 Kresge Artist Fellow in the Literary Arts

Kresge Arts in detroit

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The War Works Hard shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006

International List

Translator: Elizabeth Winslow

Poet: Dunya Mikhail

Publisher: New Directions

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