Dima Alzayat

Dima Alzayat was born in Damascus, Syria, and grew up in San Jose, California. Her short story collection, Alligator and Other Stories (2020), was published by Picador U.K. and Two Dollar Radio, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection, the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

15 September, 2021 • Dima Alzayat

The Limits of Empathy in Rabih Alameddine’s Refugee Saga

The Wrong End of the Telescope a novel by Rabih Alameddine Grove Atlantic (Sept 2021) ISBN 9780802157805 Dima Alzayat When in 2018 director Lena Dunham announced she had been hired by producers Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams to adapt Marissa Fleming’s nonfiction book, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea:…

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