We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
2009 Souk Ukaz: Writing In and Beyond the City
April 28 - May 5, 2009 • Fez and Casablanca (Morocco)
Extending its successful “New Symposium,” which met for three years on the island of Paros (Greece), the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa will host a comparable gathering of writers and artists in Morocco, in the form of a Souk Ukaz —a regional tradition of intellectual and artistic exchange.
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