Literary Reading by Novelist Thérèse Soukar Chehade
The Forum, Harold C. Smith Learning Commons (Room 201)Novelist Thérèse Soukar Chehade will read from her new novel set during Lebanon’s civil war. In We Walked On, we meet Rita, a 14-year-old girl, and Hisham, her 30-year-old Arabic teacher, who must negotiate a moral landscape perverted by political unrest and war. Chehade’s first novel, Loom, won the 2011 Arab American Book Award in fiction. Born in Beirut, […]