MES presents: Arab American Muslim Woman Balancing Act, a Mohja Kahf Reading

Mohja Kahf’s debut novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Perseus Books), is about growing up Muslim in America. Her poetry book, E-mails from Scheherazad (UFlorida Press, 2003), was a finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize. Poetry from her Hagar Poems manuscript appear in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry. Kahf’s poems also appear in Hayan Charara’s Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry, and W.W. Norton’s Language for a New Century.