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Finding a Common Language

2019; Indiana University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/15525864-7720991

1558-9579

Nadia Abdulridha Sakran AlEsi,

Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

Other| November 01 2019 Finding a Common Language: Iraqi and US Women Seek Reconciliation in Dubai Nadia Abdulridha Sakran AlEsi Nadia Abdulridha Sakran AlEsi NADIA ABDULRIDHA SAKRAN ALESI is a PhD candidate in English literature, working jointly with the Linguistics Program, at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Previously she worked as a translator/interpreter for nongovernmental organizations and as a lecturer in the Department of Translation at the University of Basra. Contact: ndskrn@yahoo.com, nasae279@uowmail.edu.au. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720991 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadia Abdulridha Sakran AlEsi; Finding a Common Language: Iraqi and US Women Seek Reconciliation in Dubai. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2019; 15 (3): 423–429. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720991 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search In December 2017 three artists from Iraq and four artists from the Boston, Massachusetts area, all women, traveled to Dubai for a four-day workshop. Poet and visual artist Elham Nasser al-Zabeedy, visual artist and gallery owner Thaira Al-Mayyahy and visual artist Mariam Mohsen Al-Barguth came from Iraq. Poet Jennifer Jean, visual artist and filmmaker Anne Loyer, documentary filmmaker Lillie Paquette, and I were the Boston-area artists in attendance. Anne and I had coplanned the workshop. We were joined by three Iraqi translators: Nadia Abdulridha Sakran AlEsi, a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong, Australia, originally from the Iraqi city of Basra; Dina Fadil, an Iraqi filmmaker formerly from Basra, now residing in Calgary, Canada; Amir Al-Azraki, a playwright and academic formerly from Basra, now working in the Toronto, Canada, area. Titled HER STORY IS, a feminist... Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2019 You do not currently have access to this content.