Gallery: U.S. Embassy hosts writers in Eastleigh and Dadaab

The U.S. Embassy’s Somalia Unit hosted a reading and lecture tour, under the auspices of University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Tour participants conducted workshops with Somali youth in Nairobi and in the Dadaab refugee camps from June 9-18, 2009. Four distinguished writers – Christopher Merrill, Eliot Weinberger, Terese Svoboda, and Tom Sleigh – conducted a workshop in Eastleigh, then spent three days in Dadaab, where they visited all three camps and reached nearly 200 young people.

Refugee Registration Camp Housing
Ifo Camp Poet Teacher Reads
Student Reads from Work Writers Terese Svoboda, Tom Sleigh, Chris Merrill and Eliot Weinberger conduct a workshop with youth in Dadaab.
Eliot Weinberger Tom Sleigh with Sudents
Writers in a Café

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