Another #Hekayah thread for #UAE #NationalDay.

#filipino #poet Danabelle Gutierrez, who grew up in Cairo, Vienna, and Muscat, and has been in #Dubai for 18 years, focuses a lot in her work on the thorny question of where is #home, especially for #thirdculturekids. She spoke to a #NYUAbuDhabi class called Real and Imagined: Women’s Writing Across Worlds.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597156648053010432.html

#3CK #nyuad #poetry #literature #performance

As part of tonight’s #UAE #NationalDay event #Hekayah | The Story at #NYUADArtsCenter, #Dubai based Egyptian chanter ZigZag Ghanim visited a@ #NYUAbuDhabi class on Modern #Arabic #Literature. Here’s a thread from the other space, including a few videos of his fusion approach of using #ClassicalArabic in a modern setting, including a poem by HH #MBR.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597109342092025856.html