Join us for a captivating voyage through time and space as author Hedy Habra reads from her poetry collection, Tea in Heliopolis and her Award Winning story collection, Flying Carpets: BRUNCH (Middle Eastern) READING & BOOK
SIGNING “TEA IN HELIOPOLIS is an irresistible book, offering poems of exquisite charm and sensibility. Both cinematic and painterly, moving across vast swaths of ancient geography. Habra’s work ...takes you on a voyage richly textured with Old World mystery and New World urgency.” Pablo Medina, author of CUBOP CITY BLUES “The poems of TEA IN HELIOPOLIS form the story of a family, sometimes tragic, sometimes searingly beautiful, and always exotic, seen through the eyes of a painter. Moving through life in Egypt, to Beirut, then to America... the chronicle captures the bravery it takes to remember and yet experience a beauty transcendent to pain. This is a remarkable book of poetry.” Diane Wakowski, author of EMERALD ICE
2013 Winner of the Arab American Book Award’s Honorable Mention in Fiction, “FLYING CARPETS is a collection of enchantments and wonders charmingly recounted, deeply imagined, and composed with lyrical exactitude. It belongs to that rare tradition of books whose spells grow increasingly seductive with each new story.” Stuart Dybek, author of SAILING WITH MAGELLAN
