Poet, author and interdisciplinary artist Moheb Soliman will present a work in progress about immigration in the Southwest. For adults.
Through a public talk, reading and discussion with other featured guests, this program will present the research, writing and speculative aspects of a work in progress.
We'll be joined by Tulsa Artist Fellow Moheb Soliman, whose second book project centers on Hi Jolly/Hadji Ali, an early American immigrant figure brought to Texas by the military with others from the Arab world to help cross and dominate the foreboding Southwest desert through the experimental and ultimately failed U.S. Army's "Camel Corps.” Though distant in time and space, the core issues of identity, place, belonging, settlement and relationship to notions of American “wilderness” and “the frontier” resonate deeply in places like Oklahoma, which has its own complex history of these themes.
Join Moheb and featured guests also working at the intersections of marginal and transnational literature to learn about this strange story and discuss larger questions about American identity, landscape and myth.
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