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DESCRIPTION:Lit&Lunch, an innovative and new reading series, celebrates current Iraqi 
 writing on May 9 at 111 Minna Gallery at 12:30 p.m. in downtown San 
 Francisco.  Award-winning actress Denmo Ibrahim presents modern Iraqi 
 literature alongside Saadi Simawe, an Iraqi immigrant and a pioneer in 
 bring Iraqi poetry to an English-speaking audience.   Simawe has made it 
 his life’s work to bring the literature of his homeland into English. 
 “Translating Iraqi poetry has become for me a desperate effort to save 
 what remains of Iraqi humanity and culture,” said Simawe. Ibrahim will 
 add to the event the dynamism of her work as founder and co-artistic 
 director of the mupwumpin theater company.  The provocative writing they 
 will present includes the poem, “The Piano of Condoleezza Rice,” a 
 satire by Iraqi poet Saadi Yusuf, who imagines the U.S. Secretary of State 
 performing at a piano whose keys, “open the gates to the Kingdom of 
 Hell.”  Lit&Lunch features dynamic readings of great literature from 
 around the world. The free events encourage the audience to sit down and 
 enjoy a unique literary reading while enjoying delicious box lunches from 
 the A2 Café. For more information, or to pre-order lunch, go to 
 http://www.catranslation.org  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/18/95843.php
SUMMARY:Lit&Lunch Celebrates Modern Iraqi Literature
LOCATION:at 2nd and Minna (two blocks South of Market)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/18/95843.php
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