{"id":865,"date":"2024-07-23T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=865"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T23:14:06","slug":"pauline-kaldas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2024\/pauline-kaldas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Kaldas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>The Measure of Distance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 25, 11:20 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pauline Kaldas returns to the symposium with her debut novel <em>The Measure of Distance<\/em>, a multi-generational family\u2019s story of migration within Egypt and immigration from Egypt to America. Born in Egypt, Pauline Kaldas immigrated with her family to the US when she was eight. She grew up near Boston, and in 1990 returned to Egypt to teach for three years at Cairo University. She currently teaches creative writing and English at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaldas has also published the essay collection, <em>Looking Both Ways<\/em>, the story collection,\u00a0<em>The Time Between Places: Stories that Weave in and out of Egypt and America,<\/em>\u00a0the poetry collection,\u00a0<em>Egyptian\u00a0Compass<\/em>,\u00a0and the memoir,\u00a0<em>Letters\u00a0from Cairo<\/em>.\u00a0She has also published the textbook, <em>Writing the Multicultural Experience<\/em>, and edited\u00a0<em>Dinarzad\u2019s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulinekaldas.com\">author website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uapress.com\/four-questions-for-pauline-kaldas\/\">Interview at University of Arkansas Press<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/okaldas_lg.jpg\" alt=\"author photo of Pauline Kaldas\" class=\"wp-image-881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/okaldas_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/okaldas_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/measureofdistance.jpg\" alt=\"cover of The Measure of Distance\" class=\"wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/measureofdistance.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/measureofdistance-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of\u00a0The Measure of Distance<br \/>\nOctober 25, 11:20 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}