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AMERICAN REFUGE: True Stories of the Refugee Experience

AMERICAN REFUGE: True Stories of the Refugee Experience, Monday, November 7th, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Breedlove Room, Rubenstein Library 349
Monday, November 07, 2022
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Duke at Home in the World

Diya Abdo is the Lincoln Financial Professor of English in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Guilford College. A second-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Jordan, Dr. Abdo's teaching, research, and scholarship focus on Arab women writers and Arab and Islamic feminisms. She has also published poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. In 2015, Dr. Abdo founded Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), which advocates for housing refugee families on college and university campus grounds and supporting them in their resettlement. The flagship chapter at Guilford College, now one of several ECAR campuses, has hosted 86 refugees thus far, including 16 Afghan evacuees.

On November 7th, Professor Abdo will be lecturing from her first book AMERICAN REFUGE: True Stories of the Refugee Experience, which was just published in by Steerforth Press in 2022.

Contact: Deb Reisinger