Abdillah dunya mikhail biography
Abdillah dunya mikhail biography
Abdillah dunya mikhail biography husband...
Dunya Mikhail
American poet
Dunya Mikhail (born 19 March, 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-Americanpoet based in the United States.
Life
She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family.[1][2] She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad.[3]
Mikhail worked as a journalist, as editor of the literary section, and as a translator for The Baghdad Observer.[3] As a liberal writer during the time of dictatorship and censorship, Mikhail fled Iraq in 1995, going first to Jordan and then eventually to the United States,[4] where she became a U.S.
citizen, got married, and raised a daughter.[5] She studied Near Eastern Studies and received her MA from Wayne State University.[6]
In 2001, she was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.[3]
Mikhail speaks and writes in Arabic and English.
Her works include the poetry collection The War Works Hard