Farrah Sarafa

Who is Farrah Sarafa?

Farrah Sarafa is an award-winning American poet, known for her works on Palestine and Iraq. Professor, editor and translator based in Manhattan, she was born to a Palestinian Muslim mother and an Iraqi Christian father. She was drawn to Columbia University by Edward Said, obtained her master's degree there, and has since been teaching at various Manhattan colleges.

She has been published in notable magazines, poetry journals and reviews, such as "Blackbook," "Village Voice," "Foliate Oak," "'Tablets, "Diagram", Arabesques and the Litchfield Review, and works as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for Green & Save News, The Struggle and The Chaldean News. She teaches humanities at various Manhattan colleges,

Not being able to visit her ancestral homes, she manages to express and explore ways to battle the oppression she feels through fiction, so she can access the intimates of her Palestinian-Iraqi homelands.