Farrah Sarafa

Farrah Sarafa (Arabic: فرح صرافة‎) is an Arab-American poet, scholar, and professor based in Manhattan. She is best known for her work as an anti war poet[1][2] and cultural activist.[1] She is of Palestinian and Chaldean descent.

Farrah Sarafa
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
UCSC
Columbia University
OccupationProfessor, writer, editor in chief
Known forWar poetry
Websitefractyll.com

Biography

Born to a Palestinian mother and a Chaldean father, post colonialism, occupation and human rights inform her research and social justice activism.[3] Her notable academic research on North African-French diaspora- Re-writing Algerian Nationalism Through the Discourse of the Woman[4] was published by the University of California Santa Cruz Press in 2006. She spoke on “Growing up Iraqi in the United States”[5] at Boston College and won the Marjorie Rappaport[6] Hopwood award for her poem “Olive.” Her poems “Palestine Fig”,[7] first published in Arabesques, “Let the Land Choose”, “Warfire”, “The Dead Sea”, and “Blood, Sand, and Tears of a Young Boy” have been featured in various magazines,[8] anthologies and textbooks.[9] Inspired by Edward Said’s work on Orientalism, postcolonial studies and Comparative Literature, Sarafa worked under his tutelage[10] at Columbia University[11] to obtain a master’s degree in 2009. She is now Professor of Literature and Modern Languages[12] at Pace University.[13]

Awards and recognition

Sarafa was the recipient of a SLS Summer Writing Scholarship and Grant,[1] and of the Marjorie Rappaport Award.[14] She earned 2nd place in the Chistell[1] Writing Contest for “To my Brother" and received the Hopwood Award for her poem "Olive".[15] Her poems have appeared in publications such as Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Avatar Review, Frigg Magazine, Litchfield Review, Cerebration, Foliate Oak, Diagram, Feile-Festa, mediterranean.nu, Tablet Review, and Voices in Wartime. Sarafa’s work as a writer and columnist for Blackbook, Arte Fuse, GreenandSave, the Village Voice, NYArt Beat,[16] Scallywag & Vagabond[17] resulted in her founding Fractyll Culture Magazine. Based on the notion that ‘culture is a fractal’, whose various spokes melodically amount to literature, travel, art, fashion, health, race and music, it underscores industry pioneers,[18] red carpet events and grassroots movements.[19]

gollark: Do people DESERVE my code if they can't infer whatever eldritch insanity was running through my brain from the one sentence of documentation and the code?
gollark: yes.
gollark: Topologically speaking.
gollark: It's on Menger Street.
gollark: Go to /warp choruscity and check out the base of my workstation cube for some examples.

References
  1. "Farrah Sarafa". Poets & Writers. 19 January 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  2. "Sodan taide". KEPA (in Finnish). 4 September 2006. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  3. "Farrah Sarafa Carbon Innovations". carboninnovations.net. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. Sarafa, Farrah (2006). Re-writing Algerian Nationalism Through the Discourse of the Woman in Assia Djebar's La Fantasia. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  5. "Boston College Front Row - Programs". frontrow.bc.edu. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. "The Hopwood Newsletter" (PDF). University of Michigan. 30 December 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  7. "Palestine Fig". 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  8. "Farrah Sarafa". Palestine InSight. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  9. "Sodan taide". www.maailmankuvalehti.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  10. Latifi, Sadia. "Learning Your Alif, Ba, Tas, Arabic Students Struggling, Organizing to Learn Difficult Language". Campus Watch. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  11. "Learning Your Alif, Ba, Tas". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  12. "Farrah Sarafa at Pace University | Coursicle Pace". www.coursicle.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  13. "Farrah Sarafa at Pace University (all) - RateMyProfessors.com". www.ratemyprofessors.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  14. "Hopwood Newsletter" (PDF). University of Michigan. January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  15. "Sarafa, Farrah". The Arabesques Review. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  16. "Farrah Sarafa | Writers | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  17. Sarafa, Farrah (24 April 2014). "NYC Premiere of FARMLAND the movie". Scallywag and Vagabond. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  18. "Farrah Sarafa". bfa.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  19. "Patrick McMullan". www.patrickmcmullan.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
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