Join us for a stellar lineup including Omar El Akkad, Holly Mason Badra, Ghassan Zeineddine, and Tracy Fuad, who will give a virtual reading and talk about their craft, the experience of raising children against today’s political and cultural backdrop, and more. Free, 12/8 at 7 p.m. Eastern.

Holly Mason Badra

Curator/editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora

Winner of the Bethesda Urban Partnership Poetry Prize

Omar El Akkad

TWICE won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award

Ghassan Zeineddine

Winner of the 2023 Khayrallah Book Prize