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Mizna and the Arab American National Museum are pleased to present the US book tour of acclaimed Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Abu Al-Hayyat will be touring her most recent book of poetry You Can Be the Last Leaf, published by Milkweed Editions, in several US cities. See below for the full list of events.

Oct 6 – Dearborn
University of Michigan Dearborn
With Zeina Hashem Beck

Oct 6 – Dearborn
Arab American National Museum
With Zeina Hashem Beck

Oct 8 – Philadelphia
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture

Oct 10 – Washington DC
Cheuse Salon at BloomBars
With Zeina Azzam and Zein El-Amine

Oct 11 – Washington DC
George Mason University
With Zeina Azzam, Danielle Badra, Holly Mason Badra, Zein El-Amine, and Leeya Mehta

Oct 15 – St. Paul
Twin Cities Book Festival
With Moheb Soliman and Yara Omer

Oct 16 – Berkley
Middle East Children’s Alliance
With Deema Shehabi

Oct 11 – Houston
University of Houston
With Hanan Awad, Maha Abdelwahab, and Fady Joudah

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop, an institution that seeks to encourage reading in Palestinian communities through creative writing projects and storytelling with children and teachers. She has published four collections of poems, four novels, and numerous children’s stories, including The Blue Pool of Questions. She contributed to and wrote a foreword for A Bird Is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry, and she is also an editor of The Book of Ramallah. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Cordite Poetry Review, The Guardian, and Literary Hub. Abu Al-Hayyat lives in Jerusalem and works in Ramallah.