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Farrah Sarafa is an Arab-American poet, professor and writer, based in Manhattan. Born to Iraqi-Palestinian Doctors, she earned her Masters from Columbia, in the footsteps of Edward Said. Teaching at Marymount, College of New Rochelle, Farrah has won a number of prizes for her poetry. She is a cultural activist for Iraq and Palestine, and continues to write and publish poems, magazine articles, and books.

“Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Rose’s Future,” Foliate Oak Review    (May 2010)

“Paris in the Day,” “Volcano,” “Palestine Fig,” “Magic Carpet Ride,” “Overnight Train,” “Turkish Bazaar,” “From Me to Strawberry She,” “A Romantic Dream to Sew Together Urban Pieces: Eye Lenses ReFocalize d-r-a-m-a from dream,” “A Palestinian-American,” “I Want to Bleed- Womanly,” “Transformation of Rivers,” Meditteranean.Nu      (January 2010)

“Memory on an American Eye.”                            (September 2010) “Goddess in the Bavarian Garden” and “Rome.”   (August 2010) “In Response to The Other Artist is Present.”       (March 2010) “Night Alone In A Parisian Hotel,” “French Spectral Romance.”        (November 2009) “Persian Morsels in Dubai,” “Champagne,” “Buddha Bar,” “Sunrise over George Washington Bridge,” “Desert Dry Oasis,” “Acrylics & Palestinian Soil,” “Riverside,” “Freedom and Mobility in NYC.”       (August 2009) “Inferno in Harlem,” BorderHopping.net

“Skyscraper,” Diagram Review    (May 2008)

“Chocolate Craze,” Feile Festa Magazine    (Spring 2007)

“Churracita,” “Organic Rejection,” “Turkish Bazaar,” “Obese,” “Magic Carpet Ride” and “Blank,”FriGG Review    (Summer 2007)

“Beach Still” and “Paris in the Day,” Avatar    (Spring 2007)

“Silverware” and “Cartooning the Rebel Artist,” Ascent Aspirations Magazine   (Winter 2007)

“Turkish Bazaar,” Voice of the Global Nomads (Janera.com)    (Winter 2007)

“Chocolate Craze,” Feile Festa    (Spring 2007) “Silverware,” Cerebration Review    (Spring 2007)

“Fireworks” and “Silverware,” A-pos-tro-phe  (Fall 2006)

“To My Brother,” Chistell Review    (February 2006)

“Palestinian Fig,” Arabesques Review    (Summer 2006)

“Palestine Fig,” Litchfield Review    (Summer 2006)

“A Wall To Dam their Tears,” Poetic Injustice: The Underground Voice in Politics    (July 2006)

“Father Iraq, Mother Palestine” “Olive” “Munich” and “Palestine Fig,” “Untitled,” and “War Fire” “Blood, Sand and Tears of a Young Iraqi Boy” “The Dead Sea” and “Colonizing Recipes,” Warpoetry.co.uk    (July 2006)

“Blood, Tears and Sand of a Young Iraqi Boy” and “Silverware,” Tablets Review     (Spring 2006)

“Olive,” Zatoun Olive Oil    (June 2006)

AWARDS Second Place Winner for “To My Brother,” The 6th Annual Chistell Writing Contest, (Spring 2006)

Finalist and Tuition Scholarship, “Aesthetic, Ascetic, Anorexic” Summer Literary Seminar/St. Petersburg Writing Contest, (Spring 2006)

Second Place Winner for “Olive” and “My Wind, My Fate,” University of Michigan’s Marjorie Rappaport Poetry Competition, (Spring 2003)