Words for Palestine is a monthly online series which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers this month include Deema K. Shehabi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Mejdulene Bernard Shomali.

Arab American National Museum Dearborn, MI (April 2024)

A Reading for Palestine in support of the Palestinian people, organized by the poet Deema K. Shehabi. Deema read beside her colleagues.

Bird & Beckett Books and Records San Francisco, CA (November 2023)

The Ghazal and its Homes through Time, reading and panel discussion, AWP, Seattle, WA (March 2023)

Hello: Who's on the Line, reading and panel discussion, AWP, Seattle, WA (March 2023)

Glossing the Margins—A Bilingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading: Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, WA (March 2023)

Featured Poet, SF State University Poetry Center, San Francisco, CA (February 2023)

LitCrawl: The Levant is a Resistance Song in the Bay’s Mouth: Arab American Poets read their latest works

Members of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) offers poets whose work sings from the Bay Area while carrying the inflections and bereavements of homelands across the Levant.

Arcana - San Francisco, CA (October 2022)

Poetry Readings and Conversation with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat & Special Guest Deema K. Shehabi

Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) Berkeley, CA (October 2022)

In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy - KUOW.org (March 2022)

In the Cosmopolis of Memory - Women on Cultural Selfhood in a Globalized World, AWPwriter.org (March 2022)

6 Days / 6 Nights - Revolutionary Arab Women in the Arts - Past, Present, Future — Poetry reading in honor of International Women’s Day

Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) San Francisco, CA (March 2021)

Women Poets Sharing their Success Stories & Immigrant Experiences through Poetry, AWP, San Antonio, TX (2020)

Stand with Kashmir Poetry Reading, UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, Berkeley, CA (October 2019)

Featured Poet, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH (October 2018)

Poets Imagine: A World Free of Borders, Detention, and Othering , UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, Berkeley, CA (October 2018)

Arab American Poetics, panel discussion, AWP, Tampa, FL (March 2018)

Poets of Existence: In Celebration of International Women’s Day - Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) Oakland, CA (March 2018)

A Celebration of Muslim Poets, reading and panel discussion, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA (October 2017)

Immigration: Cultural Binding, Creative Chaos and the Survival of International Writers, reading and panel discussion, AWP, Washington, DC (February 2017)

Poets Reading with Marilyn Hacker, Barnard College, New York, NY (March 2016)