Events at Reed

The Reed English department welcomes you to a presentation by Randa Jarrar, an award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator, who grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to the U.S. after the Gulf War. Her book A Map of Home was published in half a dozen languages and received a Hopwood Award and an Arab-American Book Award, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. Jarrar’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, Salon.com, Guernica, The Rumpus, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, Five Chapters, and others. She has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Hedgebrook, Caravansarai, and Eastern Frontier, and in 2010 was named one of the most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40. She runs RAWI (the Radius of Arab-American Writers) and loves coordinating events and strengthening communities. Her book Him, Me, Muhammad Ali is due for publication in 2016. Learn more about the series.