Originally aired 2021 Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth

Palestinian American poet Hala Alyan and her family fled Kuwait when Saddam invaded. She joins us to explore storytelling, straddling cultures, loneliness, therapy, and what value belongings come to have when you move constantly. Alyan is also a clinical psychologist and author of Salt Houses. Find Hala Alyan at her we

In this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Hala Alyan, the author of The Arsonists’ City, to discuss how the Middle East is the victim of great powers and the current situation in Lebanon. Hala Alyan is an award-winning author and poet. Her novel Salt Houses won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab Americ

“Everything we do in this world comes with a story attached to it.” – Hala Alyan In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Hala discuss narrative therapy and identity formation (3:00); making sense of our youth and life’s challenges (18:00); family and relationship mythology (29:00); how narrative theory addresses common li