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Kutubna Cultural Center
Poetry Workshop with Nathalie Handal
Poetry Workshop with Nathalie Handal
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Date: Saturday November 21, 2026
Time: 11 am
Time: 11 am
Registration Fee: 100 AED
Location: Kutubna Cultural Center, Madina Avenues, Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai
Location: Kutubna Cultural Center, Madina Avenues, Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai
Twelve poets will workshop their work with the guidance of renowned poet Nathalie Handal. This workshop offers poets the opportunity to give and receive feedback on their work. Poems will be circulated in advance.
NATHALIE HANDAL is described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” She has lived in four continents and her work has been translated in over 15 languages. She is the author of 10 award winning books, including Roma Roam (2026), Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award; The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers,” winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the editor of two bestselling anthologies, has worked on numerous theatrical productions, and her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Irish Times. Handal is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN Foundation, Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, and The Africa Institute. She is professor of literature and creative writing at New York University-AD, and writes the literary travel column, “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.
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