Coming of Age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn | Aisha Abdel Gawad
Aisha Abdel Gawad sheds light on her experience writing her novel “Between Two Moons” while balancing her work as a high-school teacher, capturing Bay Ridge’s unique community in her book, and her creative process. She also reflects on the post-9/11 War on Terror, age of surveillance, and how this impacted the Arab-American community.
Aisha Abdel Gawad is a writer and high-school teacher. She won the 2015 Pushcart Prize for her short-story “Waking Luna”. After college, Aisha worked at the Arab American Association of New York in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Her debut novel, Between Two Moons, is a coming of age story set in Bay Ridge during the post-9/11 War on Terror.
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This podcast series calls on anyone who is interested in literature from the Arab world to spend time reading along with the entire afikra community and discover some of the best books and writers that came out of the region.
