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Book Launch: “Other Paths for Shahrazad”
Book launch event for Other Paths for Shahrazad, an Arabic/English anthology of contemporary poetry, produced by the Her Story Is collective.
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Commonwealth Salon, Central Library at Copley Square
This event is in-person and registration is required. Please click here to register for the event.
Join us at the end of Women’s History Month and just before the start of National Poetry Month in celebrating the publication of Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women, produced by the Her Story Is collective. The celebration will include beautiful poetry readings in Arabic and English. This event is presented at the Boston Public Library in partnership with the Her Story Is collective, the Center for Arabic Culture, and Tupelo Press.
Anthology editor Jennifer Jean, Her Story Is organizer Amy Merrill, Center for Arabic Culture director Alma Richeh, and Tupelo Press publisher Jeffrey Levine will be joined by anthology poets, co-translators, and other local artists and poets to share stories about, and poems from, this important book.
Sponsored by the Her Story Is collective and published by Tupelo Press, Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women features work from by forty poets from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Tunisia.
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