Summary: Novelist Dina Nayeri, journalist Alia Malek, and poet Rami Karim's work surrounds Middle East politics, revolution, and the refugee experience. Dina Nayeri reads from her book Refuge, a powerful story of a daughter who leaves Iran, but leaves her father behind. Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek writes about her return to Damascus as the Syrian conflict started in The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria. AAWW Margins Fellow Rami Karim, reads lyric poems set against the Civil War in Lebanon.
