Event Speaker: Hoda Adra

Hoda Adra is a poet and translator who was born in Lebanon and grew up in Saudi Arabia until age 17, before moving to Montreal in 2002. Her writing explores gender apartheid, aborted oral histories, and the politics of marginalization of female bodies and movements. Hoda’s participations include The Banff Spoken Word Programme and the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. In 2021, her translations of Palestinian oral history archives in Voices of the Nakba (Pluto Press) received the PEN Translates Award. Her storytelling solo “L’histoire de comment je me suis séparée en deux” premieres in november at Théâtre Prospero.