Celebrate World Refugee Day with a screeni ng of \;The Foreigner's Home: Toni Morrison at the Louvre fol lowed by a community conversation. The documentary screening (57 minutes) will be followed by a community conversation discussing the themes of race \, identity\, "foreignness\," and art's redemptive power explored in the f ilm. Sara Abou Rashed\, Palestinian American poet\, speak er\, and creator of the one-woman show\, A Map of Myself\, will f acilitate the community conversation.
\nFind out more about the docu mentary on The Foreigner's Home webpage.
\nAbout the M oderator:
\nSara Abou Rashed is a Palestin ian American poet\, speaker\, and creator of the one-woman show\, A Ma p of Myself. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center\, Sa ra&rsquo\;s work has been commended by the UK Forward Prize and received t he 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan\, where s he earned her MFA. Sara&rsquo\;s writing appears in The Kenyon Review< /em>\, The LA Review of Books\, Poetry Magazine\, Ar ab Lit Quarterly\, 9-12 McGraw Hill Language Arts Curriculum\, and in the anthologies A Land With a People\, Heaven Looks Like Us< /em>\, and Ask the Night for a Dream\, among others. A graduate o f Denison University\, Sara lives in Columbus\, Ohio\, where she serves on the Columbus City Council&rsquo\;s Commission on Immigrant and Refugee Af fairs while pursuing a PhD at The Ohio State University. Theories of R eturn is her debut poetry collection.
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