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  • ABOUT Atef Abu Saif

    Atef Abu Saif is a writer and the editor-in-chief of Syasat Journal, published in Palestine by the Institute of Public Policy. He teaches at Gaza's universities.  He is a regular contributor to several Palestinian and other Arabic-language newspapers, journals, and literary supplements. Profile
  • ABOUT Hu Xudong

    Hu Xudong is a noted poet, columnist and professor of literature at Peking University.

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  • ABOUT Agnes Lam

    Agnes Lam’s recent publications include a poetry collection, Water Wood Pure Splendour and  Language education in China: Policy and experience from 1949.  She is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Profile
  • ABOUT Nikola Madzirov

    Nikola Madžirov lives and works in Macedonia as an editor, author and translator.

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  • ABOUT Christopher Merrill

    Christopher Merrill is the director of the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. A poet and translator, his  work has been translated into 25 languages. His books include Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. The recipient of a knighthood in arts and letters from the French government, he is also book critic for the daily radio news program The World.

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  • ABOUT John Nkemngong Nkengasong

    John Nkemngong Nkengasong is a Cameroonian poet, playwright, novelist and critic.  He is currently Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon.

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  • ABOUT Rogelio Saunders

    Rogelio Saunders is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist who began his career in Cuba as part of “Diáspora(s)”, a group of alternative writers.  He has published poetry and short stories in Cuba and abroad, holding residencies in Austria, Germany, and Spain.

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In the finer analysis, writers are communicators and, as such, should be in a good position to help their readers cross cultural boundaries safely.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 1, 2008.

In this era of cultural globalization, artists everywhere must rethink, reframe, and even translate what it means to be human. Drawing on examples that range from the Internet to the 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province, a panel of authors from the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa share their visions for a robust, cosmopolitan future where culture thrives, the parameters of citizenship expand, and the highest values are acknowledged as universal. Poet, essayist, translator, and Program director Christopher Merrill leads the discussion.

Panelists include Hu Xudong, Agnes LamNikola MadžirovJohn Nkemngong Nkengasong, Atef Abu Saif, and Rogelio Saunders

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