Join us as we interview Rima Rantisi lecturer and Rusted Radishes founding editor on our afikra Conversations series on February 18.
Date: Tuesday, February 23
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Rima Rantisi is a faculty member in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut where she teaches academic and creative writing. She is the founding editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, which publishes artists and writers from Lebanon, its diaspora, and the region and is currently in its ninth circulation. Her essays can be found in Literary Hub, the anthology Arab Women Voice New Realities, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and Past Ten as well as in translation. Her essay “Days of Pearls,” published in The Slag Glass City, was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.