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In Her Feminine Sign

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First published: 2019
Pages: 53

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In Her Feminine Sign is a collection of poems by Dunya Mikhail that features the themes of language, gender, place, and time from a blocked-off perspective. This work follows Mikhail’s account of the Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, as detailed in The Beekeeper.

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Dunya Mikhail

Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet who writes across Arabic and English. Born in Baghdad, she wrote and translated for the Baghdad Observer before moving to the United States in 1995. She has also taught Arabic in Michigan. New Directions published In Her Feminine Sign in 2019, the first book Mikhail composed in both languages.

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