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   Wednesday, December 27, 2017 
   Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
​   Khalil Sakakini Street
   Al Masyoon
​   Ramallah, Palestine
​   6:00PM
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​   Saturday, December 23, 2017 
   Literaturhaus at Nadi
​   Alserkal Avenue
   Street 8 and 17
​   Dubai, UAE
​   4:00PM
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​   Thursday, December 21, 2017 
   Halabi Bookshop
   Hamad Street 
​   Beirut, Lebanon 
​   6:00PM
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​   Tuesday, December 19, 2017 
   Readers Bookshop
   7th Circle
​   Amman, Jordan 
​   8:00PM
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Friday, October 6, 2017 
Reading with Sahar Mustafah
Arab American National Museum
13624 Michigan Ave
​Dearborn, MI 48126
​7:00PM
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Thursday, October 5th, 2017 
Reading with poet Heather Derr Smitt
Literati Bookstore
​124 E Washington
Ann Arbor, MI  48104
7:00PM
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​Wednesday, September 20, 2017
​Traditions Fair Trade
300 5th Ave SW
​Olympia, Washington 98501
Register here​
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​Tuesday, September 12, 2017 
Red Hen Press Reading with Peggy Shumaker and Ellen Meeropol
Annenberg Community Beach House
Santa Monica, CA,
​7:00PM
Register here ​
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Saturday, April 29, 2017
Workshop
Presidio Branch Library
3150 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Deema K. Shehabi and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
​Moe's Books
2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley CA 94704
7:30 pm​
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​Saturday April 22, 2017
Book Launch!
Elliott Bay Book Company
7:00 pm

We are honored (and excited) this evening to host a much-anticipated debut, and to give voice to one of the first readings of a second just-published work as poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha celebrates publication of her first full-length collection, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press), and will also have in hand her newly-released chapbook, Arab in Newsland, recipient of Two Sylvias Press 2016 Chapbook Prize. Both collections draw on Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s engaged way of being alive and in the world, a world that for her includes Palestine, Jordan, and Syria, as well as the U.S. She has translated others from the Arabic (Iraqi poet Faiza Sultan among them) and had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies. Tonight, though, marks her own first book.
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​Saturday March 11, 2017
Chapbook Launch
Open Books: A Poetry Emporium
7:00PM

Join us for a reading to celebrate the launch of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's new chapbook, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize.
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April 1, 2016
In Our Own Words: Muslim Women Poets
AWP 2016, Los Angeles

Shadab Zeest Hashimi
Deema K. Shehabi
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha ​

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October 31st, 2015
​Nonfiction Now
Flagstaff, AZ
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As part of an outstanding panel entitled Inside/Outside: Blending Personal and Public Concerns in Nonfiction I read my poem "Running Orders" and shared the story of its travels across the world. In the photograph with me: fellow writers Sherry Walker, Lauren Plitkins and Mark Rozema, and our expert moderator, writer Dinah Lenney.
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​November 6, 2014
Bellevue College
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A poetry reading organized by the Arab Culture Club, a student organization at BC that celebrates all aspects of Arabic language and culture. I had the pleasure of reading with fellow poets Maged Zaher and Rajaa Gharbi. We read poems in Arabic and English and the students sang us a verse of a poem by Mahmoud Darwish and treated us to a Middle Eastern dinner they had cooked themselves. It was cultural immersion of the best kind. 
October 15, 2014
Words West Literary Series
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Words West is a literary series lovingly curated and expertly organized by poet Susan Rich, Harold Taw and Katy Ellis in the intimate setting of C&P Coffee House in West Seattle. I had the pleasure of participating in a braided reading with poet Rick Barot; we traded poems back and forth and answered questions posed by Susan and the audience about the relationship between poetry and politics. And we commiserated about the anti-poetic properties of FOX News.