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House to House: بيت لبيت - Articulating a Poetics of Translucence

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WHEN Wednesday, September 16, 2026
6-7:30 PM WHERE NYUAD Institute Building, Lecture Hall WHO NYU Abu Dhabi Institute Open to the Public

Drawing on memories spanning the 1940s to the 1980s, Shamma's latest poetry collection, House to House: بيت لبيت, traces the infra-ordinary details of daily life along the Dubai Creek, bringing the voices, values, and stories of an extraordinary generation into poetic form. Blending documentary poetics, archival research, and text-image practices, Shamma reflects on her processes of listening, translating, and transducing, as she transformed collective memory into poetry, drawing, and collage.

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