Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965-
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Name (Latin)
Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965-
Name (Arabic)
ميخائيل، دنيا
Date of birth
1965
Associated country
Iraq
United States
Field of activity
College teaching
Journalism
Poetry
Translating and interpreting
Occupation
Translators
College teachers
Journalists
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Dunya Mikhail (Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad and earned a BA at the University of Baghdad. She worked as a translator and journalist for the Baghdad Observer before being placed on Saddam Hussein's enemies list. She immigrated to the United States in the mid-1990s and earned an MA at Wayne State University. Mikhail is the author of several collections of poetry published in Arabic; Mikhail's honors include the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She lives in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and has taught at Michigan State University ( (Poetry Foundation website, October 9, 2018:) )
- Dunya Mikhail (Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-Chaldean poet based in the United States; born and raised in Iraq; language: Aramaic; Arabic; English; After having been questioned by Saddam Hussein's government and facing increasing threats and harassment from the Iraqi authorities for her writings, Mikhail fled Iraq in 1996 going first to Jordan, then eventually to the United States, where she became a U.S. citizen; Mikhail speaks and writes in Arabic and English; lives in Michigan where she works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University ( (Wikipedia, October 9, 2018:) )
- Yawmīyāt mawjah khārija al-baḥr, 1999:title page (Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl) added t.p. (Dunya Mikhail [in rom.]) page 4 (poet and journalist; born in Baghdad in 1965, she has lived in Michigan since 1996)
- Yawmīyāt mawjah khārija al-baḥr, 1999:t.p. (Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl) added t.p. (Dunya Mikhail [in rom.]) p. 4 (poet and journalist; b. in Baghdad in 1965, she has lived in Michigan since 1996)