Theater video tags: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Palestine, Minneapolis, and the Urgent Word

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In this event hosted by the Palestine Festival of Literature and Mizna in Minneapolis, poets Mosab Abu Toha, Sarah Aziza, Nick Estes, Dina Omar, Sagirah Shahid, Danez Smith, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha come together for an evening of performance, music, and conversation about the meaning and power of literature.

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Cross-Genre
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Mizna
Palestine Festival of Literature
Mosab Abu Toha
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Sarah Aziza
Danez Smith
Nick Estes
Sagirah Shahid
Dina Omar
reading
performance
2025

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s National Book Award Speech

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In this video, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha accepts the 2024 National Book Award in poetry for her collection Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024). “I’m proud to stand here today, and to accept this honor as a Palestinian American on behalf of all the deeply beautiful Palestinians that this world has lost and in honor of those miraculous ones who endure.”

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Poetry
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Something About Living
University of Akron Press
National Book Award
National Book Foundation
speech
2024
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