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Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse

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Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse served as the founding Chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, from 2011–13. While there, she introduced translation workshops and is now working to assemble a comprehensive anthology of classical and contemporary Kurdish poems in translation. She received her MFA at Warren Wilson and a masters in English education from the University of Virginia.

Articles by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse

Union
By Abdulla Pashew
I will make my skin your flag.
Translated from Kurdish by Hemn Bakr & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse
The Poetry of Truth: An Interview with Abdulla Pashew
By Ziad Rashad
With the process of democratization the role of poetry has been curtailed.
Translated from Kurdish by Dina Dara Omer Meran & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse
If You See Fatima
By Jamal Khambar
Say, after her death, we lit our epic poems on fire.
Translated from Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse & Soran Azad