What we’re looking for is a published poet who can lead a writing workshop in Arabic for Arabic-speaking high school students.
Here are the major tasks, abbreviated. Everything takes place in July except where noted.
· Assist with student selection process (March or possibly April)
· Teach one introductory workshop session with selected students online (May; this really depends on students’ Internet access)
· Co-teach the Arabic-language workshop with another writer-teacher (currently we’ve got Khaled Khalifa tentatively signed on)
· Meet with students as needed
· Assist with editing of the student anthology
· Participate in a reading with the other teacher as part of the Iowa City Book Festival
· Write a report of no more than 2 pages listing what worked, what didn’t, and suggestions for improvement (August)
We pay all July travel and lodging expenses, plus an honorarium and per diem.
Our Web site, which awaits 2010 updates, is here: http://iwp.uiowa.edu/projects/BTL/index.html
Kecia Lynn
Coordinator, Between the Lines
International Writing Program
The University of Iowa
430 N. Clinton
Iowa City IA 52242
(319) 384-3296 (ph)
(319) 335-3843 (fx)
kecia-lynn@uiowa.edu
More information at the Radius of Arab American Writers website here.