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Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet, living in Dubai.
Zeina’s writing covers a variety of topics: Arab culture, home, exile, family narratives, language, identity, female voices, and religion. Her poetry often exists at the intersections of the personal & the political, the divine & the profane, the self & the other.
Her second full-length collection, ‘Louder than Hearts’, won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.
She’s also the author of two chapbooks: ‘3arabi Song’, winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and ‘There Was and How Much There Was’, a smith door top Laureate’s Choice, selected by Carol Ann Duffy. Her first book, To Live in Autumn, won the 2013 Backwaters Prize.
Her work won Best of the Net, has been nominated for the Pushcart and the Forward Prize, and has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, the Academy of American Poets, and World Literature Today, among others. Her poem, “Maqam,” won Poetry Magazine’s 2017 Frederick Bock Prize.
She has founded and hosts a Dubai-based open mic night called PUNCH.
Her website details are www.zeinahashembeck.com
Poems by Ms. Zeina Hashem Beck
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Videos of Ms. Zeina Hashem Beck