Artist Talk: Hala Alyan, Endurance and Solidarity Through Art

Award-winning Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan will be giving a talk on January 22 at 5.30 pm at our Atrium.

Titled “Endurance and Solidarity Through Art”, Alyan, a poet, clinical psychologist, and novelist, will read selected poems and nonfiction pieces touching upon themes of resilience, identity, and heritage during the talk.

Delving into the pivotal role of art in fortifying both personal capacity and solidarity, she will also discuss strategies for building endurance during this time. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Alyan is the author of the novel ’Salt Houses’, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her latest novel, ’The Arsonists’ City’, was a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of four award-winning poetry collections, most recently ’The Twenty-Ninth Year’.

Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, LitHub, The New York Times and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she is a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University. Her forthcoming poetry collection, ‘The Moon that Turns You Back’, will be published by Ecco, a New York-based publishing imprint of HarperCollins, next year.