I Want Milk, I Want Honey

Photo courtesy of Gail Daneker

Mohja Kahf, professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Arkansas, will read from her body of poetry to address the theme of belonging in “I Want Milk, I Want Honey,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101. The event is free and open to the public.

Kahf's work spans literary genres. She is the author of two poetry collections, E-mails from Scheherazad and Hagar Poems, and one novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, which follows the life of a Muslim girl growing up in the American Midwest.

She won a Pushcart Prize in 2011 and she is currently working on a manuscript of love poems and a manuscript of new poems about Syria. Her scholarly work includes Western Representations of the Muslim Woman (University of Texas Press).

Kahf has also been active in the Syrian Nonviolence Movement.

Her visit is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.