Poetry at Pembroke: Ruba Abughaida
PAST EVENT | 14 November 2018 18:00
'Poetry at Pembroke', a series of poetry readings taking place throughout Michaelmas term!
The series has been organised by Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke. Performances take place between 8th October - 28th November.
Ruba Abughaida will be reading from Paths and Passageways, poems which explore the shifting landscape of cultural and social issues, inspired by the ways of life of the people and places in them. She also
reflects on the mosaiced relationships between language and homeland as felt through the absence of a homeland, touching on themes of displacement and belonging. It is her first published collection of poetry, and was written in Arabic and translated into English. Her writing has appeared or will appear in several publications in Lebanon, the U.K., and North America, including Inkapture, On the Premises, Noah, Wales Art Review, Thresholds, The Rusty Nail, Squalorly, Sukoon, and The Laurel Review. In 2014, her short story The Sirocco Winds won first prize in the Writer and Artists’ Yearbook Historical Fiction Competition.
She has collaborated on translation projects in English and Arabic with London-based Iraqi poet Adnan Al Sayegh and Oxford-based poet Jenny Lewis (Poetry for Peace Anthology: Words Against War by Young People of Oxfordshire; Who Can Climb the Sky: A Cross Cultural Theatre Piece performed in English and Arabic; Books by Jenny Lewis: Even At The Edge of the World; The Flood; Singing for Inanna; Taking Mesopotamia). Ruba was born in London. She also lived in Kuwait and Cyprus before her family emigrated to Montreal in Canada. She has a diploma in creative writing from Oxford University, an M.St. in creative writing from Cambridge University, and is currently studying for an M.A. in Mediæval Arabic thought at S.O.A.S. in London.
Check our events page for further listings. To find out more please contact Peter King.
Poetry at Pembroke: Ruba Abughaida
PAST EVENT | 14 November 2018 18:00
'Poetry at Pembroke', a series of poetry readings taking place throughout Michaelmas term!
The series has been organised by Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke. Performances take place between 8th October - 28th November.
Ruba Abughaida will be reading from Paths and Passageways, poems which explore the shifting landscape of cultural and social issues, inspired by the ways of life of the people and places in them. She also
reflects on the mosaiced relationships between language and homeland as felt through the absence of a homeland, touching on themes of displacement and belonging. It is her first published collection of poetry, and was written in Arabic and translated into English. Her writing has appeared or will appear in several publications in Lebanon, the U.K., and North America, including Inkapture, On the Premises, Noah, Wales Art Review, Thresholds, The Rusty Nail, Squalorly, Sukoon, and The Laurel Review. In 2014, her short story The Sirocco Winds won first prize in the Writer and Artists’ Yearbook Historical Fiction Competition.
She has collaborated on translation projects in English and Arabic with London-based Iraqi poet Adnan Al Sayegh and Oxford-based poet Jenny Lewis (Poetry for Peace Anthology: Words Against War by Young People of Oxfordshire; Who Can Climb the Sky: A Cross Cultural Theatre Piece performed in English and Arabic; Books by Jenny Lewis: Even At The Edge of the World; The Flood; Singing for Inanna; Taking Mesopotamia). Ruba was born in London. She also lived in Kuwait and Cyprus before her family emigrated to Montreal in Canada. She has a diploma in creative writing from Oxford University, an M.St. in creative writing from Cambridge University, and is currently studying for an M.A. in Mediæval Arabic thought at S.O.A.S. in London.
Check our events page for further listings. To find out more please contact Peter King.